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Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
March 13, 1981
Foundation handles millions in gifts
Foundation men such as
Gunnar Kronholm, a re-tired
banker and the direc-tor
of planned giving for
the Foundation; Rollen
Larson, a CPA and chair-man
of the Foundation;
Don Benson, president of
MEA; and Warren East-lund
serve on the advisor
board. Burt Wessman,
vice president of Bethel's
business affairs, and Pres-ident
Lundquist are also
on the board, as well as a
financial advisor from Pi-per,
Jaffray & Hopwood
Incorporated. The mem-bers
meet quarterly and
on call.
Devries feels that the
forming of the Develop-ment
Foundation was a
step in the right direction.
"Bethel has tended to pre-occupy
itself with the pre-sent,"
said Devries. "When Harvey Devries, president of the non-profit Bethel Foundation,
see page 3 works with $10.6 million in gifts.
by Naomi Ludeman
A ranch in Montana, a
resort in Arizona, a busi-ness
in Albany, New York,
stock in various corpora-tions
and an eight acre lot
across from a shopping
center in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota are only a
few of the gifts given to
Bethel's Development Foun-dation.
Harvey Devries, presi-dent,
said, "The founda-tion
is a separate non-pro-fit
corporation that ac-quires
and manages gifts
given to Bethel College."
The gifts are tax-exempt.
People-usually give their
gifts with certain stipula-by
Ginny Olson
How many times have
you reached for a hymnal
during chapel and there
was nothing there? That
is not surprising consider-ing
there are only 375 left,
one of the reasons the
"New Hymnal for Bethel"
project was started.
The idea for the project
sprung up in a conversa-tion
earlier this year in the
Campus Ministries office
between Lee Eliason, Dave
Horn and Bruce Leafblad.
From the conversation de-veloped
a committee to de-cide
on a new hymnal. The
committee was made up
of C. Howard Smith, Oli-ver
Mogck, Mary Fall, Ger-ry
Sundberg, Horn and
Bruce Leafblad.
The criteria the commit-tee
set up for the new
hymnal was that it con-tain
Scandinavian mater-ial
to fit Bethel's heritage,
represent a wide spectrum
of ethnic music as well as
denominational and non-denominational
as well as
fit in many kinds of situa-tions,
both worship servi-,
ces and sing and shares.
Lastly, the hymnal should
contain the best music of
the past 25 years. "Our
hymnals now are over 25
years old:commented Leafblad.
The hymnal they de-cided
on will be a special
Bethel edition by Cove-nant
Press. It will have
tions or preferences as to
what the money is used
for. "One woman, a retired
nurse," explained Devries,
"gave the foundation a gift
with the stipulation that it
go toward the salary of
the director of the nursing
program. So salaries don't
always come from tui-tion."
The new science
wing is partially financed
by gifts managed by the
. Foundation.
"The Foundation is grow-ing
rapidly," said Devries.
"We started in 1972. By
1975 we had $1.6 million
and as of December 31,
1980 we had $10.6 million.
We also transmitted $1
"The Chapel Hymnal,
Bethel College" printed on
the front and the president
will write a forward that
will be included in .the pre-face.
"We'll be launching the
fund-raising drive at the
March 19 chapel," said
Leafblad. "It will be a hym-nal
festival with a brass
choir, one of the perform-ing
choirs and, hopefully,
million in assets to Be-thel."
The Foundation present-ly
manages 40 trusts: $5.5
million are in securities,
$4 million in real estate
and $1 million in assorted
business interests.
Before the Foundation
was established gifts were
managed by people within
the Baptist General Con-ference
churches. Devries
explained that the dona-tors'
motives were good,
but they did not have the
knowledge or experience
to manage the compli-cated
gifts and large sums
of money.
Since the forming of the
one of the original mem-bers
of the hymnal com-mittee.
The hymnals cost $7
each. One thousand copies
are to arrive in late April.
"We have already raised
over 10 per cent of the
cost," said Leafblad. The
funds will be raised with-in
the community. People
can donate money for half
a hymnal, a whole hym-nal,
or anywhere on up."
by Hellen Gutsche
"We're praying for thou-sands
to come," said Mari-lyn
Eliason, referring to
the Soviet Christian Pro-ject
Observance Day
March 14. A march and an
afternoon rally are plan-ned,
to exhibit concern for
Soviet Christians.
"The major reason I'm
involved is to help Bethel
students become aware
that faith is alive in the
U.S.S.R.," said Eliason. Eli-ason
is a student senator
and assistant director of
the program at Bethel.
Student senate spon-sors
the project at Bethel.
The senators sent out fly-ers,
bulletins and memos
to the Bethel community.
The project's obser-vance
day begins at 9:30
a.m. with the march to the
Capitol from the state fair-grounds.
At noon Gover-nor
Al Quie will hold a
rally. Among the speakers
will be Lisa Vins, daugh-ter
of Soviet Georgi Vins,
an exiled Baptist minister.
Early in February, fol-lowing
a meeting with a
Bethel and Northwestern
delegation, Quie declared
March 14 "Minnesota
Against Religious Oppres-sion
of Soviet Peoples
Day." Twenty to 40 thou-sand
people are expected
to attend the rally.
Bethel, Northwestern
and Wheaton colleges are
among the major partici-pating
schools in the U.S.
In the Twin Cities one to
two thousand students are
expected to march to the
Capitol. Last year Whea-ton
protested the U.S.S.R.'s
treatment of its Chris-tians,
and their efforts
saved Georgi Vins' life.
He was arrested and im-prisoned
until 1979 when
he and three other men
were released to the U.S.
for four Soviet spies. He is
presently living in the U.S.
and spoke in several 1981
interim classes.
Eugene Grossman, chap-el
speaker Thursday, Feb.
Praises sung for coming hymnals
see page 3
Students march on Capitol
26, elaborated on the pur-pose
of the project. He also
explained the march and
the letter-writing cam-paign.
A filmstrip about
the project is being sent to
interested churches.
Grossman said 40-50
per cent of the mail gets
through to the addressee.
Religious cards and pic-tures
are especially appre-ciated
because they are
not marketed in the
U.S.S.R. The Christians
save them and put them
up in their houses.
G. Vins is presently the Letter-writing is impor-
U.S. Secretary of the Re- tant to the Soviet Chris-formed
Baptist Movement tians for encouragement
in the U.S.S.R., with in the faith, said G. Vins.
50,000 - 100,000 Soviet But more important than
members. correspondence is prayer,
Government regula- according to Eliason.
tions were established to "Most of all we want to
limit religious expression, encourage people to pray,"
and Vins marched to she said.
the Kremlin in protest. Publicity is planned be-fore
March 14, including a
press conference. Also in-volved
at Bethel are Steve
Penner, project director,
and Lu Ann Holcomb, pro-ject
secretary. March Cre-mer,
Student Body Presi-dent
at Northwestern, or-
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baby born
January 27
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Dear "Bethel-ites,"
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home at 3:10 p.m. January
27 (the doctor arrived at
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We want to thank you
for your concern and to
tell you that we love you
and think of you often
(having Doc Dalton and
the Depression House
gang on the National news
helps one to remember as
well!).
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editorial
Rising costs, unfairexpectations may topple Spire
The word "spire" is often used synonymously with
the word "steeple"—the highest point in a church's
physical structure. Yet at Bethel "Spire" means "year-book",
and in $$$ terms, the Spire is a low point of the
Bethel budget—too low, in fact, to be economically
feasible.
Last May, when the bill to reinstate Bethel's year-book
was quickly pushed through the student senate,
few senators had time to adequately weigh the prob-lems
of reinstating the yearbook. As a result, the Spire
"office" is crammed into the senate office, equipment is
at a bare minimum (what they do have is rented) and,
worst of all, the yearbook's $12,000 budget is at least
$8,000 short of meeting only the printing costs of
$20,000.
Other costs include student stipends, office equip-ment,
shipping costs and photographic supplies, a big
expense of producing a yearbook. An extremely low
estimate for these additional costs might be $3,000.
That's a total of $23,000. The budget revenue can
hardly be called realistic. The result? Advertising must
make up the $11,000 difference.
Sue Norbeck, editor of Wheaton College's yearbook,
"The Tower," said they raise about $2,000 from 12
pages of advertising. Westmont College in Santa Bar-bara,
Calif. raises about $400 to $500 in ads for their
yearbook, the "Citadel," according to editor Mike Wil-son.
They also send patron letters to parents of stu-dents,
publishing the names of contributors, which
brings in $1,500 to $2,000 more. Here in the Twin Cities,
the Colleges of St. Thomas and St. Catherine each
receive no advertising income. Student fees indirectly
pay the entire amount.
To date, the Spire has sold $3,000 in advertising. Not
bad for a yearbook starting from ground zero, with no
regular advertisers to draw on from previous years.
The Clarion, in contrast, has a $21,500 budget, with
printing costs of $12,000. And with $9,000 allocated
strictly for student salaries, the Clarion budget puts the
Spire's to shame.
Last year Bethel's literary arts magazine Passages
(which the Spire replaced) was allocated $10,250 for a
40-page paperback magazine. This year the Spire's
$12,000 budget is expected to cover the costs of produc-ing
a hardback book about twice the size in physical
dimensions, with 224 pages, 24 of which will be in color.
The Spire staff has had enough problems trying to
re-kindle a yearbook tradition at Bethel. It doesn't need
the added worries of an insufficient budget, with the
communications board harping at them to sell more
advertising.
Raising the bare minimum of $8,000 in three months
may be an impossible task. If we don't have the fore-sight
to deal with the Spire's budget problems soon, we
may have to deal with a Pandora's box full of problems
later. Students may refuse to pay a surcharge for the
book if that is needed to balance the budget. The only
other way to solve the problem would be to increase the
budget from Bethel's general fund—an equally difficult
task.
Bethel has been plagued with media disasters in the
past five years. Two years ago, the Roster "reprint" was
published in March (see this week's "From Our Files").
This year, and for the past few years KABY has been
troubled by problems and shut down more than once.
Will our new Spire be the next media disaster?
—jsr
Action on El Salvador crisis
could save lives of thousands
To the Editor:
El Salvador. Some peo-ple
do not know about the
bloody civil war taking
place in that country.
Others can tell about the
13,000 people who have
been killed there in the
past year, over 80 per cent
of whom were killed by
the military forces of the
U.S.-supported govern-ment.
Those best able to tell
about this are those who
have been closest to the
situation: the Roman Cath-olic
Church, Amnesty In-ternational,
former ambas-sador
to El Salvador Ro-bert
White and, most re-cently,
Congressman Ger-ry
Studds, who has come
back from a fact-finding
mission to El Salvador.
These people have led the
growing opposition to
what they have called,
"The Reagan Administra-tion's
Vietnamization of
Central America."
This opposition appears
to know no political boun-daries.
In legislative en-deavors
several Minneso-ta
congressmen of both
parties have endorsed Rep.
Studd's bill to end all mil-itary
aid to the ruling jun-ta
in El Salvador. They
include Representatives
Vento, Oberstar and Er-dahl.
Across the country can
be found this same broad-ly
based opposition. An
advertisement appearing
in the New York Times on
February 3, 1981 read,
"LET THE PEOPLE OF EL
SALVADOR DECIDE!" Its
long list of endorsers re-vealed
that churches and
religious organizations a-long
with political, cultu-ral,
academic and labor
leaders and groups form
the constituency of the
opposition as well as the
many human rights organ-izations.
Even given a majority
of the people of the U.S. on
their side, those favoring
the removal of support for
what they see as a terrible,
unjust and cruel regime
face an uphill struggle.
The Pentagon reportedly
planned to add about 30
military advisors to the 20
already placed in El Sal-vador.
Howard Baker, se-nate
majority leader, was
quoted as saying it would
be "entirely appropirate
for this country to dis-patch
noncombat advisors
in small numbers-50,
100, 150—to tell these
people how to defend them-selves
against Cutia."
Former ambassador
White and those who now
hold his position insist
that the revolution in El
Salvador has been caused
by social injustice rather
than by Cubans or com-munists
instigating sub-version
from the outside.
White and others say that
the statements by Secre-tary
of State Alexander
Haig and other officials
trying to find a commu-nist
connection make a-purely
emotional appeal,
they cannot find a basis
for the communist argu-ments
in the facts.
The issues involved are
confusing and deserve fur-ther
investigation rather
than despair and inaction.
A video presentation des-cribing
the situation in El
Salvador will be shown in
Bethel's campus at an up-coming
time which is yet
to be determined. This will
provide an opportunity for
further investigation.
Another opportunity
comes March 24 when a
one-year commemoration
of the assassination of Sal-vadorean
Archbishop Os-car
Romero will be held.
An interfaith prayer ser-vice
will be held at Church
of the Assumption in St.
Paul at 7 p.m. A candle-light
procession to the
State Capitol follows,
where prominent Minne-sotans
opposed to U.S. mil-itary
and economic aid to
El Salvador will speak at
a rally.
As this event is being
held during Bethel's spring
break, students, faculty,
staff and administration
who will be in the Twin
Cities area will have an
excellent opportunity to
attend.
Tony Anderson
The winners of the Passages
literary and photo contest, to be
part of the Spire, have been
selected: First place winners will
receive $35, second place $25 and
third place $15.
Literary winners:
Photography winners:
First - Ginny Olson, First - Doug Barkey,
"Inner-City Kids"
"Leaves"
Second - Cindy
Second - Steve Mills,
Oberg, "Senior untitled work
Year" SPIRE Third - Judith
Hougen, untitled
composition
Third - Paul
Ackerman, untitled
work
Stu Luckman, associate professor of art, conducted Calvin Col-lege's
first sculpture installation.
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Forensics continues success
by Dan Wiley
The Bethel debate team
continues its success in
regional and national tour-naments.
February 13- 15 Bethel
debate teams of Ron Nel-son,
Brice Russell, Mark
Publow and Beth Neufeld,
competed at the Univer-sity
of Arkansas Invita-tional,
Fayetteville, Ark.
Publow and Neufeld had
the best showing for Be-thel,
competing against 23
teams representing eleven
states: California, Illinois,
Nebraska, Missouri, Kan-sas,
Iowa, New Mexico,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tex-as
and Minnesota. They
made it to the octa-final
round where they lost a
close decision to Califor-nia
State University-
Northridge.
The weekend of Febru-ary
28, Publow and Neu-feld
traveled to the Uni-versity
of Nebraska-Lin-coln
Invitational. They com-peted
in both debate and
individual events. In de-bate
competition, they lost
a close decision to the Uni-versity
of South Dakota.
Neufeld ranked as the
top individual debator in
the Cross Examination De-bate
Association (CEDA)
division. In the individual
competition both Neufeld
and Publow made it to the
final round in extemporan-eous
speaking. Neufeld al-so
made the finals in im-promptu
speaking.
The individual events
team continues to develop
experience. February 20-
21 Laura Stratton, Linda
Nylen, Joy Diacou and Peg-gy
Hardie traveled to the
University of Wisconsin-
Eau Claire fora major Mid-west
tournament. Despite
the fact that none of the
Bethel participants made
it to the final rounds,
Coach Butch Maltby said
the young squad learned a
great deal from their corn-petition.
Luckman installs "Night Sailors" Study tour to dig Israel
by Shari Goddard
A sculpture installation
gives the impression of al-most
walking into the mid-dle
of a sculpture. The piece
seems more massive when
surrounded by walls than
when standing outside.
It took Stewart (Stu)
Luckman, associate pro-fessor
of art, two and a
half days to set up "Night
Sailors," a sculpture spe-cially
designed for an in-stallation
at Calvin Col-lege,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Following the March 3 open-ing,
Luckman gave a talk
on the piece. He views it
as a way for artists to look
at energy.
Luckman built the work
at Bethel, but transported
it to Michigan by truck.
The dimensions of the gal-lery
allowed him to fill
most of the gallery with
To the Editor:
One question: Why are
the racquetball courts on-ly
open for two hours on
Sundays?
More reasonable hours
would be from 1 - 5 and 8-
11. This would allow stu-dents
time for Sunday
night services, "without
sacrificing church for rac-y
ue t ball." Racquetball
does not require any paid
supervision.
On Sunday afternoon
and evenings there are two
activities available—study-ing
or sleeping. Racquet-ball
would allow a little
diversion from this monot-the
work. It snakes its
way as one continuous tub-ular-
steel line almost to
the ceiling of the room and
out the door.
"I talked to them last
year," said Luckman.
"They firmed up a date
last October....It was an
opportunity to approach a
sculpture in a much dif-ferent
way than usual. I
offered them the idea of
doing an installation." He
added that installations
are new for both Calvin
College and himself. The
actual construction of the
piece took three to four
months.
"Night Sailors" has re-ceived
favorable reactions
from Calvin, according to
Luckman. "I haven't seen a
review yet, in a newspa-per;
it could be completely
the opposite," said Luck-onous
cycle.
To those who desire the
courts closed on Sunday
because of the "Day of
Rest" idea, I suggest they
stay on campus for a Sun-day
afternoon and even-ing,
to see how "restful"
and boring a Sunday is.
Using our bodies to play
racquetball on Sunday
does not mean we aren't
worshiping God.
Crystal Engel
PO 427
P.S. How many other stu-dents
and faculty would
like to see the courts more
available on Sundays?
man, adding that an artist
can not let reviews worry
him, "or you stop dead in
your tracks."
While installations are
new to Luckman, exhibi-tions
are not. "I think it's
natural to exhibit; we're
social beings; it's part of
our lives." Galleries in
New York and Boston, mu-seums
and many colleges
and universities have
shown Luckman's works.
by Hellen Gutsche
Camping by the Sea of
Galilee, snorkeling
through the Red Sea coral
reefs and excavating an
Old Testament city are
among the plans for Beth-el's
seven week study tour
of Israel this summer.
Carl Rasmussen, associ-ate
professor of Biblical
studies will lead and in-struct
the two credit
course. Tenative dates are
set for June 3 - July 25. "It's
a great way to have the
Bible come alive," said
Rasmussen.
The first three weeks
will be centered in Jerusa-lem.
The course of study
will include Israel's his-tory,
geography and arche-ology.
Ten days will be
spent in field study.
The students will be par-ticipating
in this program
at the Institute for Holy
Land Studies (IHLS). Ras-mussen
is an IHLS adjunct
professor.
Excavation will occupy
the next four weeks of
study. Lachish, the Old
Testament city conquered
by Joshua and Nebuchad-nezzer,
University of Tel
Aviv will supervise the
project.
Chapel Schedule
Monday - Rev. Ben Pat-terson,
Wittenburg
Door
Tuesday - Rev. Ben Pat-terson
Wednesday - Lee Elia-son,
worship service
Thursday - Hymn Fes-tival
Friday - Father Jim Sin-not,
human rights
Soviets, from page 1
ganizes the Twin City ef-fort.
The senate encourages
writing to the local, state
and federal level adminis-trations
to push for hu-man
rights. Eliason pro-jects
the march and rally
to be a yearly event.
Living quarters will be
tents pitched within five
minutes walk of the city
amid, a grove of eucalyp-tus
trees. "Doesn't that
sound romantic?" Rasmus-sen
chuckled.
All four weekends will
be free for touring and
informal travel. "We may
rent a car or van, drive to
the Sea of Galilee and
camp there for a night,"
said Rasmussen.
The group will be 8-11
students from college and/
or seminary. Credit is of-fered
at both schools. The
entire estimated cost is
$2,500 including airfare,
room, board, etc. The ten-ative
schedule will be fi-nalized
with the airline at
a later date.
Foundation
from page 1
it gets money it usually
spends it right away be-cause
it has had to." Now
Bethel can plan for the
future with better accura-cy
and bigger dreams.
The Development Foun-dation
is a model for other
colleges across the nation.
It has trained 30 people
from other colleges who
have raised $70 million.
Fifteen seminaries have
also followed the pattern
and raised $10.5 million.
There will be picket-making
parties the week
before the march and
transportation will be pro-vided
to the fairgrounds
March 14, New Campus at
9 a.m.
Any questions should
be directed to the senate
office or Eliason.
Sunday racquetball
can provide diversion
Kleven, Kreutzfeld, Publow paired . II
Mark Publow and Cheryl Thomas.
Mike Wiseman and Rick Kreutzfeldt.
Karen Evans. and Mike Kleven
Lifestyle statement masks lifestyle decay
by Matt Weber
This article is written to express a concern, a concern
which stems from a sense that Bethel College has
entered a phase of deterioration in academics. The
problem is not found in the academic program, but
rather comes as a result of the student body's general
misconception of what it means to be a Christian in a
Christian liberal arts college.
If one were to ask students what makes Bethel unique
as a Christian institution, one would probably get an
answer that:
1) has surprisingly little to do with academics;
2) is heavily weighted in terms of a "lifestyle"
concept;
3) and which suffers from mistaking subculture
lifestyle for that which should be a Christian
lifestyle.
Perhaps the major reason Bethel students seem to
forget that academics are a part of Bethel's Christian
experience is that Bethel places an emphasis on a life-style
that is unrelated to learning. How does the fact
that I do not smoke influence the way I read a book? In
other words Bethel operates not as a Christian liberal
arts college, but rather as a subculture gathering place
that just "happens" to have a college on the same
grounds. A gap has formed between learning for learn-ing's
sake and living as a Christian that has influenced
students to perceive Bethel as unique from a secular
school only in terms of lifestyle.
But why is this happening? I find the cause of the
above phenomena difficult to pinpoint. From my expe-rience,
the faculty seems clearly devoted to the concept
of Christian liberal arts. This is reflected in the fact that
most of my classes have involved the attempt by the
professor lo incorporate class material with a Christian
perspective. However, a Christian perspective is some-thing
to be developed, not spoon-fed or forced upon a
student. Professors can only allow the opportunity for
students to grapple with the material, an experience
which students can use to expand and develop their
world view.
Unfortunately, students do not conceive the Chris-tian
aspect of Bethel playing a large part in this process
of struggling with class material; as a result, Christian
liberal arts slowly deteriorates. I am not claiming that
Bethel has succumbed to total apathy and that all stu-dents
are dead to academics. But I do see a creeping
malaise that, if left to fester, could develop into a
serious illness, or one that could be prevented by a little
fresh air and some creative thinking.
As it stands, much of the Bethel lifestyle statement is
culturally based and has very little to do with Chris-tianity.
I am asking Bethel to be honest enough to admit
that lifestyle rules are part of a Baptist subculture tradi-tion,
that they are designed to help us ease the tensions
of community living, and that they have nothing to do
with making Bethel a Christian college. In fact, the
improper emphasis upon them is hampering the effec-tiveness
of Bethel as a liberal arts college.
Bethel needs to emphasize a Christian lifestyle. A
Christian lifestyle is one free of hate, gossip, hypocricy,
racism, sexism, etc. A Christian lifestyle maifests the
fruits of the spirit and carries with it the responsibility
to act out the redemptive qualities initiated by Jesus
Christ. Thus we not only avoid something like racism,
but we should strive to eliminate it. A Christian lifes-tyle
also carries with it the responsibility to have an
open mind that is willing to learn about all God's crea-tion.
If we are to carry out our redemptive responsi-bility
we need to understand our world.
Once students realize what a Christian lifestyle
entails and recognize that it has nothing to do with the
lifestyle statement, academics can be seen in a proper
perspective. It is learning and Christian lifestyle to-gether
that can make Bethel unique. We cannot drive a
wedge between the two. They are inseparable. I would
cite the fact that the art department had to remove the
artwork from the halls as a prime example of Bethel's
failure to put academics and Christianity into proper
perspective. The art department is an essential part of
our community. To vandalize its work is an obvious
violation of a Christian lifestyle, yet the art department
was met with as much indifference as sympathy. If
Bethel had a Christian lifestyle commitment we would
all have felt responsible for taking an active part in
eliminating the typical evangelical Protestant reaction
to the arts, and perhaps have prevented this incident.
The lifestyle statement is only as effective as the red
dye injected into hamburger at a grocery store. It can
make us look like a nice fresh Christian school. but
underneath brown decay can creep in. I challenge
Bethel to promote Christian living, make students
aware that the lifestyle cannot do this for them, and
incorporate this new mind set into academics. I am sure
the faculty is more than ready for the change.
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...with Evans, Wiseman, Thomas in race
Editor's note: the 1981
senate election campaigns
have begun, with students
going to the polls on Tues-day
and Wednesday,
March 17 and 18. Positions
to be chosen include four
sophomore senators, four
junior senators, three se-nior
senators, four sena-tors-
at-large, as well as
the presidential and vice-presidential
positions.
This year, like last year,
three presidential teams
will pursue the offices of
president and vice-presi-dent:
Mark Publow (pres-ident)
and Cheryl Thomas
(vice-president); Rick
Kreutzfeldt (president)
and Mike Wiseman (vice-president);
and Mike Kle-ven
(president) and Karen
Evans (vice-president). To
get at the issues involved,
the Clarion asked each of
the candidates to respond
to four questions:
What do you perceive are
the responsibilities of the
president and vice-presi-dent
positions?
Publow-Thomas
The president and vice-president
of the student
association function not on-ly
as leaders of the student
senate, but as a reflection
of, and a challenge to, the
entire student body.
The president and vice-president
are to function
as representatives of the
student voice, interfacing
with the administration
not only to announce pol-icy
change but to insure
student participation in
that change. Pragmatical-ly,
this requires the presi-dent
to help facilitate im-plementation
of senatorial-ly-
initiated legislation, to
act as a student represen-tative
at various adminis-trative
meetings and to
work with the vice-presi-dent
in giving a challeng-ing
vision to both the sen-ate
and the student body
whom it serves. The vice-president
also functions as
an organizer of, and ad-ministrator
to, the senate.
Both are to function al-ways
as servants, offering
creative leadership in an
atmosphere of openness.
Kreutzfeldt-Wiseman.
The duties of the presi-dent
as we foresee them
are to create an air of cred-ibility
and cohesiveness be-tween
the senate and the
student body, the senate
and the faculty, and be-tween
the senate and the
administration. Secondly,
he should make a concert-ed
effort to instill in each
senator the realization that
a senatorial position is the
major commitment of that
student for the year other
than classes. Finally, he
should make sure that
each individual's potential
is used to the greatest ex-tent
through the wise exer-cise
of his power of dele-gation
of duties.
The duties of the vice-president
are largely to act
as a support of the presi-dent.
In order to do this
effectively, the vice-presi-dent
will be expected to
act as liaison between the
senate and the faculty and
administration. He will im-plement
and oversee the
internal organization of
the senate. The third ma-j6r
duty is to preside over
senate meetings, and create
an atmosphere that is con-ducive
to the efficient oper-ation
of a senatorial body.
Kleven - Evans.
We feel that each posi-tion
is as important as the
other. Having been involv-ed
in senate we both see
the importance of these
positions and the hard
work that they involve.
We see the vice president
as someone who holds
everything together, as
chairman of the commun-ication
board and head of
the senate. We see the pres-ident's
position as one that
is representative of the stu-dents.
He is their line of
communication to the ad-ministration;
he also
works on the concerns of
the students.
How do you feel you are
qualified for the positions
you wish to assume?
Publow-Thomas.
Able leadership is a key
to senate effectiveness. I
have had four years of
student government expe-rience,
one year of service
on the Communications
Board, and two years of
debate experience at Be-thel.
I am a member of
Sundouloi, a group of stu-dents
who work with the
admissitms office. And I
have had extensive politi-cal
involvement, includ-ing
serving as chairperson
of the Page Committee at a
state political convention.
Cheryl has served as a
freshman and sophomore
senator. She has also
served as Midwest Region-al
Director for the Ameri-can
Association of Evan-gelical
Students (AAES),
attending two national
AAES conventions and
serving a congressional in-ternship.
She is currently
National Policies Director
for AAES.
Kreutzfeldt - Wiseman.
We feel qualified because
of the combination of skills
we can offer the student
body. We both have a tre-mendous
concern for the
apathetic and lackadaisi-cal
attitudes many people
have toward senate (includ-ing
some senators). We feel
with our combination of
experience linked with a
new creativeness the stu-dent
senate is definitely
going to change, and it
will change for the better.
Rick Kreutzfeldt:
1) Primary senate exper-ience.
2) Served on Special Pro-jects
Committee.
3) Served on Social Con-cerns
Committee at his
home church.
4) Member of the Bethel
College debate squad 1979-
81.
Mike Wiseman.
1) Member of the Bethel
College debate squad 1979-
81.
2) Currently works in the
communications depart-ment
as a T.A.
3) Served on various com-mittees
in high school for
public service.
Kleven - Evans.
Karen and I feel that our
past experiences and pre-sent
involvements have gi-ven
us some valuable qual-ifications
for these impor-tant
positions. Karen has
been involved in senate
since her freshman year
and is currently chairman
of the Public Action Com-mittee.
I am now presently a
senator-at-large, working
on the Special Projects
Committee. I am also ac-tively
involved with Wel-come
Week. Through our
involvement we have laid
some valuable ground-work
with many key peo-ple
on campus. Also we
have held many leadership
positions outside of
school. These include our
experience with short term
missions, teaching, organ-izing
and leadership posi-tions
within the church.
Through our experiences
we feel that we have the
ability and ambition to fill
these positions.
What do you feel is the
most important issue that
senate will confront next
year? How would you han-dle
it?
Publow-Thomas.
The most important is-sue
that senate must face
next year is the challenge
of defining its very pur-pose
and role at Bethel.
The senate has become
somewhat less than mean-ingful
to the average stu- .
dent, if not completely
meaningless. ,
Cheryl and I see the root
of that problem as stem-ming
from a conceptual
uncertainly of senate's pur-pose.
Senate is to repre-sent
the student body, yet
many students don't even
know who their senators
are. Senate is to insure
student input and partici-pation
in community
change, yet many stu-dents
only hear of changes
in our community after it's
too late to participate in
them. Senate is to be a
mirror, reflecting back to
us our own sense of pur-pose
and potential. Yet
many students are so un-informed
of senate that
they could get a better re-flection
of themselves by
starring into Lake Valen-tine.
Cheryl and I would con-front
this challenge by in-creasing
student aware-ness,
implementing pro-grams
which would meet
student needs and offer-ing
leadership which can
both give vision and pro-duce
action.
Kreutzfeldt - Wiseman.
The major problem for
the senate next year will
be one of reorganization
and the establishment of
priorities. In the past, sen-ate
has not been organized
in a manner conducive to
accomplishing its goals; it
has struggled with many
trivial issues which bog
down the senate opera-tions.
As president and
vice-president, we will di-rect
senate's priorities and
internal structures into a
direction of accomplish-ment.
As of now there is
an immediate need for sen-ate
to be reorganized and
its priorities to be set
straight. We need to orient
our committees more to-ward
the student body. In
order to give senate a great-er
credibility with the stu-dents,
it must serve the
students.
The finance committee
would receive the most at-tention
from us. At pres-ent,
the committee simply
passes the monetary re-quests
before it.
The Special Projects
Committee needs the most
serious redefining. Current-ly,
this committee is in-volved
on campus as well
as off. For students to see
how senate influences
their lives, the Special Pro-jects
Committee should
concentrate on those is-sues
that directly affect
students.
Kleven - Evans.
We feel the most impor-tant
problem facing Bethel
is apathy. We want stu-dents
to know what is go-ing
on, show concern, and
take an active part.
We know this is not a
task we can accomplish
ourselves. We want to ac-complish
this through the
student senate, because
the senate has been set up
to benefit the student
body. However, there are
some changes we see that
need to be made.
First I.,ve would place
more responsibility on the
senator and the senator at
large positions, thus draw-ing
people of greater com-mitment
to these posi-tions.
We feel the only way
to get students involved is
to get student leaders in-volved.
Second, we want you to
know what your student
senate is and how you can
use it. Too much time has
passed with no one caring.
Studentsell'iate can only
work if it works for you.
What are your other major
platform programs for the
1981-82 school year?
Publow-Thomas.
Our first area of empha-sis
is that of community.
Bethel claims to be a Chris-tian
community, but it of-ten
seems that we are un-clear
as to what a Chris-tian
community is, much
less how to live in one.
Programs which could
meet this need include spon-s
ors h i p of a convocation
series early next . year on
"Definining Christian Com-m
uni ty," a weekly Clarion
column to report to you on
Senate's activities, open
meeting times scheduled
with student organiza-tions
so that varying per-spectives
can be voiced
and acted upon and sche-duled
open meetings with
one dormitory, townhouse
or apartment complex
weekly, so that individual
student's opinions can be
raised. Senate members
would also be active in
Welcome Week, and an in-tensive
two-day training
seminar would be sched-uled
for all senators.
Two other important
areas of community im-provement
would be the
implementation of a sen-ate
- run book sale at the
beginning of each term for
all used textbooks and the
redecoration of our dining
facilities through a student-initiated
and student-designed
project.
A second area of focus
is academics and adminis-tration.
Programs in this
area include the possible
gain of a student vote• on
the board of regents, the
implementation of a fresh-man
honors program, care-ful
study of and participa-tion
in budget cuts and
proposals, a call for a de-creased
student-faculty ra-tio
and the possibility of
extended library hours.
Each of the above pro-grams
are designed to in-crease
student awareness
and meet community
needs. The creative lead-ership
that Cheryl and I
offer is designed not just
to fulfill our responsibili-ties
or to do a job, but to
insure responsive and re-sponsible
change.
Kreutzfeldt-Wiseman.
1) Make new senators
familiar with parliamen-tary
procedure. This is ab-solutely
necessary for sen-ators
to work in an at-mosphere
conducive to ser-ious
discussion.
2) Continue to support
the yearbook.
3) Write a document that
would crystallize the im-portant
objectives of the
senate and give senate
some long-term concrete
goals to continually be
working toward.
4) Confront such issues
as equitable visitation, on-campus
overnight housing
for commuters and student
financing.
Kleven - Evans.
There are several things
we would like to imple-ment
in the 1981 -82 school
year. Here are three on the
top of our list:
First, we would like to
see the senate doing things
for students in a visible
way. Our goal is not to
raise large sums of money,
but rather to use the mon-ey
that we do have visibly
for the students.
Second, we want to cre-ate
a working relationship
with the Campus Coordi-nators.
This is essential in
planning projects, and in
supporting each other in
the projects that are under-taken.
This has not been
done effectively in the
past.
Finally, we see an untap-ped
resource in the Twin
Cities that we want to get
involved with. Other Chris-tian
Colleges have good
ideas we could use at Beth-el.
We see these schools as
great opportunities to ex-pand
our Christian fellow-ship.
We are willing to
share our successes with
them, and we want to
learn from their success-es.
1981
BETHEL
ELECTIONS
Vote in the student
senate elections on
Tuesday and
Wednesday,
March 17 and 18.
The Madwoman of Chaillot (Dorothy Lynn Holstrom) becomes the center of attention of her "establishment" as the Waiter (Peter
Saufferer) serves the drinks and the Flower Girl (Leslie Schirm) quietly watches. The play runs through Saturday night (photo by
Doug Barkey).
Page 6
SMP opens orientation session to public I nNke.o comment.
by Tony Anderson
The Student Missionary
Project Orientation Com-mittee
is inviting the gen-eral
public to attend its
orientation seminar, held
at Bethany Baptist Church
Saturday, March 14. At
this seminar the theologi-cal
foundations of mis-sions
will be investigated.
by Tony Anderson
Father Jim Sinnott, a
Maryknoll priest and hu-man
rights speaker, will
be speaking in chapel and
classes from Saturday,
March 14 through Friday,
March 20.
Sinnott was a Mary-knoll
missionary in South
Korea for 15 years. He
became involved in pub-licly
criticizing the U.S. -
supported government of
Park Chung Hee in 1973
when it instituted the death
penalty for political dis-sent.
In April 1975, he was
arrested by the South Kor-ean
police and expelled
from the country for "pol-itical
acts disturbing the
public order."
Since that time he has
been speaking on human
rights issues to various
groups around the coun-try.
He has also traveled
to Latin America and writ-ten
a book about his expe-riences
in South Korea.
Sinnott has been in the
Twin Cities several times
before. In addition to regu-lar
speaking engagements,
he has appeared on local
television talk shows.
Sinnott's Bethel itiner-ary
is as follows:
Saturday, March 14, 9:30
a.m. SMP orientation sem-i
na r, Bethany Baptist
Church
Tuesday, March 17, 1:55
p.m. Principles of Manage-ment
Wednesday, March 18,
9:10 a.m. Social Problems
Wednesday, March 18, 2:30
p.m. Hebrew Prophets
Thursday, March 19,12:10
p.m. Human Resources
Management
Thursday, March 19, 1:55
p.m. Christian Ethics
Because of the exciting
agenda, SMP would like
to make this seminar avail-able
to as many as possi-ble.
The first session begins
at 9:30 a.m. and ends at
11:30 a.m. A panel discus-sion
by three people with
differing theological view-points
and social analyses
begins the session. One
Friday, March 20, 10:20
a.m. Chapel Address
Friday, March 20, 11:00
a.m. Luncheon and Discus-sion
by Joy Nannette Banta
And they say we aren't
all mad. Some of us might
be surprised how far from
sane we really are. But
even the craziest of wo-men
(and men) are some-times
the most insightful
members of society, recog-nizing
the necessity of de-stroying
the wicked.
The Madwoman of Chail-lot
(pronounced shy-o)
takes on the monumental
task of exterminating the
wicked people of the
world. Directed by Susan
Ogden-Malouf, the thea-tre
department's first
spring play conquers the
realm of sanity and catch-es
a bright glimpse of mad-ness.
There is no simple way
to describe the sequence
of events. One must wit-ness
the revelation of the
world's wickedness to the
madwoman, hear the plot-ting
of prospectors and
presidents to strike oil —
wealth!, and watch four
madwomen plot, try and
convict the men responsi-panel
member will be John
Piper, a former Bethel pro-fessor
and now pastor at
Bethlehem Baptist Church,
Mpls. Don Belton, who is
currently teaching at Be-thel
in the social work de-partment,
and Jim Sinnott,
a former Maryknoll mis-sionary
in South Korea
round out the panel. The
panelists will address the
topics of "God, History,
and Mission," "Mission Is-sues
and Social Analysis"
and "Advising on Direc-tion
in Missions."
A 20-minute filmstrip en-titled
"Guess Who's Corn-ing
To Breakfast" will fol-low
the discussion. The
filmstrip is an introduc-ble
for the destruction of
their beautiful world.
Countess Aurelia (the
Madwoman of Chaillot),
played by Dorothy Lynn
Holstrom, is a marvelous
character, filled with
depth, sincerity, insight
and a wonderful sense of
the unexpected. Her words
are as unpredictable as any
insanity plea.
As the Countess moves
in and out of real and ima-ginary
worlds, one would
almost believe that she
possesses a wisdom far
greater than any of the
conniving men whom she
strives to overcome. And
tion to the problem of struc-tural
evil and world hun-ger.
The second session beg-ins
at 12:45. Two distinct
_ sets of problems will be
presented through visual
media. "The Challenge Be-fore
Us" (15 minutes) pre-sents
a traditional, evan-gelical
view of the scope of
the Church's mission. The
ABC documentary, "The
Politics of Torture," fol-lows.
Concluding this ses-sion
will be a discussion
on the nature and scope of
the Church's mission in
light of the insights pres-ented
in the day's sessions.
A $1 donation is request-ed.
maybe she does.
Holstrom does a con-vincing
job with the char-acter,
adding her own
touches of ingenious play-fulness.
The audience has
no choice but to become
attached to the character.
- Beside the countess
stands Mme. Constance,
the Madwoman of Passy,
portrayed by Nancy John-son.
One finds her lovable
as she wobbles around in
a quaint sort of way, chas-ing,
petting, picking up
and scolding her once-de-ceased
dog Dickie. Imagi-nary
though he may be,
Dickie steals your heart
Priest coming to talk
on human rights issue
along with Constance as
they carry on with Aure-lia,
the Countess.
Add to the already amu-sing
line of madwomen
Mlle. Gabrielle, the Mad-woman
of St. Sulpice, and
there can be no denying
the amusement that is af-forded.
Gabrielle's naivete
is cause for many chuck-les
and snickers when the
three women work out
their plan for extermina-tion
of the wicked.
There was no shortage
of love in this epic of sani-ty
versus madness. The
maid, Irma, and the Pros-pector's
assistant, Pierre,
portrayed by Judy Niemi
andKevin Hanson, demon-strated
the coming toge-ther
of two worlds and the
triumph over ugly wicked-ness.
Also deserving of com-mendation
are Rick Rees
for excellent set, costume
and lighting design (the
set construction and use
of space worked excep-tionally
well) and Doro-thy
Holmstrom for fantas-tic
make-up and hair de-sign.
The special meanings
and significance of the
see next page
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Physics phaculty to perphorm phor all
by Wendy Norberg
The women's track team
spent a long day last Sat-urday
at the Southern Min-nesota
Relays in Mankato,
facing the toughest com-petition
the state has to
offer. Yet Coach Cindy
Book was pleased that
everyone achieved a per-sonal
goal or a best time.
In the finals of the 55-
meter dash Captain Lynn
Severson and Danette Bur-gess
finished third and
fourth respectively. Ear-lier,
in the semi-finals, Bur-gess
set a Bethel record in
that event in 7.3 seconds.
Both women also com-bined
efforts with Sherri
Lindquist and Jenny Bur-gess
to set a Bethel record
in the 4X one lap relay.
The medley relay team
of Tammy Ruck, Deb Sen-
Madwoman
from page 6
story cannot be lost in the
madness. Though it takes
awhile to be drawn into
the plot, as the play pro-gresses
the point becomes
increasingly clear. It is not
until the end that reality
comes around, though.
What is real and what is
make-believe fogs togeth-er
and sends the mind spin-ning.
But as the memory of
the story lingers, its mean-ing
stands out. When Gab-rielle
confronted Aurelia
in a fit of criticism and
dared to say that Aurelia's
pearls were not real, Aure-lia
was quick to reply that
admittedly they weren't
real at one time, but, "Isn't
it true that pearls become
real as you wear them?
Gabrielle then replied,
sion, Libby Schevenius
and Brenda Harris won
their heat and finished
sixth overall. Sension also
did well in the field events,
taking sixth in the high
jump with 5' and fifth in
the long jump with a 15'3"
jump.
Teammate Kathy Kvan
finished sixth in the shot
put. Distance runners
Wendy Norberg and Ellie
Abbott ran the 3,000-
meter, Norberg tying Ab-bott's
indoor record at
11:02.
At Mankato each school
could send only two par-ticipants
in each event, so
only part of Bethel's team
was able to go. Tonight
the team looks forward to
competing in the St. Olaf
Invite as a total unit once
again.
"And isn't it the same with
memories?" One might
tend to think so.
The play is a fine exam-ple
of well-blended char-acterization.
Director Og-den-
Malouf, in her first
Bethel production, coordi-nated
the rather large cast
to present a complex tale
in fine style.
Once the plot has been
planned, the fourth and
last madwoman joins the
trio. Mme. Josephine, the
Madwoman of La Con-corde,
acts as judge over
the trial of the wicked.
Josephine, played by Aud-rey
I. Huizinga, projects
sternness and determina-tion
of purpose as she car-ries
out the duties of court
head.
Not to be forgotten are
the wicked men them-selves.
Brian Joyce, the
by Tim Wilbee
Holograms, lasers, acous-tics
and microprocessors
... material for science
heads only? Not at all,
claims Rick Peterson, Beth-el's
newest physics profes-sor.
Through a series of
evening demonstrations
from March 2 until early
May, the physics faculty
hopes to convey the crea-tive
side of physics and
engineering to the Bethel
population.
Every Monday at 7 p.m.
in AC 233 informal pre-sentations
by faculty and
students will focus on dif-ferent
projects and exper-iments.
Open to anyone,
these lectures/discussions
are geared to increase
awareness of the Bethel
physics department's
growing role here on cam-pus.
In the past, it has
been of limited size and
resources, as evidenced by
its lack of space and, be-fore
this year, only two
professors. The addition
of Peterson to the tandem
of R.A. Carlsen and Tom
Greenlee is one indication
of the department's
growth.
The new addition also
indicates the increasing
size and resources availa-ble
to the pre-engineering
and physics programs. A
new optics lab, laser work-room
and valuable storage
President; Greg Lee, the
Prospector; and Myron Z.
Hovda, the Baron, work
convincingly together to
create an atmosphere of
shrewd enterprise and de-ceit.
When they change
roles to all portray presi-dents,
then prospectors
and finally, press agents,
the characters come to life,
revealing many-faced
"men of the world."
The aura of craziness —
madness — is consistent-ly
augmented by an ab-surd
Little Man, Philip
Barker; a Sincere Waiter,
Peter Saufferer; one-tune
Street Singer, Terry John-son;
the sweet Flower Girl,
Leslie Schirm; a profound
DeafMute, Sharon Allen;
a Shoelace Peddler, Mark
space will greatly aug-ment
the existing facili-ties.
Peterson cited the in-convenience
of always
having to set up and take
down equipment as one of
the main detriments of the
present conditions. Beth-el's
new optics table, wait,
ing for the completion of
the addition, is presently
kept in the electronics
workroom in AC 227.
Peterson views the new
addition as a means to
service areas of the school.
Chemistry, biology, engi-neering
and even art and
music students will profit
from the new facilities.
This outlook of service to
other departments is what
prompted the physics fa-culty
to begin the series of
Monday night presenta-tions
this semester. Free
cookies and punch com-plement
the talks, many of
which are student pro-jects.
"We want current -stu-dents
to be aware of our
plans for the next few
years as we move into the
new science addition," Pe-terson
said. "In addition to
the added classroom lab-oratory
space, the physics
area will allow room and
shop facilities for longer
term student/faculty ex-perimental
research pro-jects."
Many of the Monday
evening sessions will
spring from such projects,
including holography, mu-
Chapman; a money-hun-gry
Broker Jeff Sprinkel; a
skillful and amusing
Street Juggler, Jahn Dy-vik;
a silent Doorman,
Bruce Person; and wader-clad
Sewer-Man, Scott
Robertson.
Other amusing charac-ters
were the knowledga-ble
Dr. Jadin, Martin Mas-terjohn,
and the by-the-book
Policeman, Larry
Smith. The able-bodied
and street-wise Sargeant
was capably portrayed by
Mike Wiseman. Three "wo-men
of questionable re-pute"
were portrayed by
Elizabeth Talbot, Cheryl
Thomas and Robin West-lund;
the three carried the
roles well.
sical acoustics, micropro-cessors
and laser construc-tion.
"Science isn't much fun
until you dig in and get
your hands dirty;" said Pe-terson.
"We want more dir-ty
hands in the AC at
Bethel!"
March 16 "Microproces-sor
Applications at Beth-el"
including student de
scriptions of interactive
experiments from Interim
March 30 "Laser Construc-tion
at Bethel" including
dye laser currently being
tested and the line-tun-able
CO,laser to be com-pleted
during Fall '81
April 13 "Current Prob-lems
in Fusion Power Gen-eration"
magnetic confine-ment
vs. laser initiated in-ertial
confinement tech-niques
April 27 "Career and Cur-riculum
Choices," faculty
and student discussion of
current career alterna-tives
in physics and engi-neering
and their influen-ces
on our curriculum
(1981-1985)
May 4 Physics and Pre-
Engineering Awards Din-ner
(6 p.m.) - Film: The
Life and Times of Edward
Teller
The creative side of physics is revealed in demonstrations such
as this interferogram showing vibrational modes of a handbell.
Women's track excels
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TChope eblaansdeb).a ll team will be an aggressive team this spring according to Ian Wolcyn, Bethel's new baseball coach (photo by Don
I.M. b-ball rivals tie in showdown
Page 8
Spring season opening
promises growth in skills
by Mark Wollan
The Royal baseball team
is off and running, and
that is no exaggeration,
according to first-year
coach Tom Wolcyn. "We
will be an aggressive ball
club. Offensively we will
do a lot of bunting and
stealing hoping to cause
the other team to make
mistakes," he said.
Wolcyn came to Bethel
this year from the Univer-sity
of Minnesota. He
played baseball- for the
University from 1972-1975
and was a part of two big
ten championship teams.
He continued on as a coach
from 1976-1979.
Wolcyn is being assist-ed
this year by John Priest-ly,
Mary Hadenfeldt and
George Palke. In addition,
trainer Neal Dutton will
work with the team while
they train and play in
by Rob Haglund
A strong defense, good
team speed and a balanced
hitting attack are the key
ingredients of the 1981
Bethel women's • softball
team. Head Coach Marcia
LaRock has three infield-ers
and two outfielders re-turning
from last year's
squad, which finished
with a 10-9 record.
The tri-captains of this
Texas during spring
break.
The key to good compet-itive
baseball is good
pitching, according to Wol-cyn.
"If we can develop
strong, consistent pitch-ing,
we have the potential
to win the conference," he
said. The players are con-fident
and eager to prove
themselves as a MIAC
power. Captain Paul Lind-berg
looks at this season
as an ideal opportuntiy to
"develop a foundation for
the baseball program to be
built upon."
Overall, the Royal base-ball
team promises a
spring filled with exciting
competitive baseball. The
members are young, ag-gressive
and under the di-rection
of a new coaching
staff which promises to
surprise a lot of teams.
year s team are junior
catcher Julie Murphy and
junior infielders Julie Pet-erson
and Tammy Miller.
Kim Schmidt will play
first base in an infield that
LaRock feels will be very
strong defensively.
Returning sophomores
Beckie Bruss and Gail
Heinsch anchor the out-field.
Chris Johnson will
be the starting pitcher and,
although she does not
Monday night intramu-rals
featured a crowd-pleas-ing
showdown between
the "Whiteheads" and the
"Cheap Sunglasses."
These two teams battled it
out to decide which team
was the worst in the "B"
league division of basket-ball.
At the half, the score
have a lot of experience,
LaRock feels she can do
the job. Miller and Peter-son
are the backup pitch-ers.
Transfers Kathy Stell-ema,
junior, and senior
Sher Kadlec will provide
valuable experience. The
team also has some depth
with freshmen Yvonne
Hughes, Shelley Sorensen
and Mel Visco vying for
starting roles.
was 10-18 in favor of the
Cheap Sunglasses. Mid-way
through the second
half the Whiteheads
caught up 28-27, and it
was a see-saw battle until
the end.
The score was tied at
34-34 with a few seconds
left to play. The White-heads
had a final shot but
The team will travel to
Tucson, Ariz., over spring
break where they will play
six games before return-ing
home to open their
Minnesota schedule April
7.
Although it is hard to
judge talent with only in-door
practices, Coach La-
Rock is optimistic. "We
have a good defense and
we're hoping for a good
couldn't sink it. In two-minute
overtime action,
Garth Renn put the White-heads
out in front 36-34
with a basket, but Tracy
Hames added two for the
Cheap Sunglasses before
time expired.
The contest ended in a
tie, 36-36. It was a great
finish for two teams
offensive attack. If our
pitching is consistent, we
should do OK," she said.
Softball enthusiasts are
encouraged to support the
women's team at their
home games played at Per-ry
Park. After returning
from Arizona the team will
play 19 games in 22 days.
Of these 19 games, only
three are away.
which obviously belong in
a class by themselves.
IM Co-ed volleyball
starts March 31. Rosters
are due by March 19.
IM open league basket-ball
tourneys are next
week.
Asay wins
two events,
leads team
by Wendy Norberg
Last Saturday the men's
track team traveled to St.
John's and competed in an
exciting meet with several
school records broken and
nine personal records set
by Bethel athletes. As a
team the Royals finished
third with 54 points, be-hind
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
(81) and St. John's (72)
and ahead of Hamline (29)
and Gustavus (10).
Phil Asay led the team,
taking first place and set-ting
school and personal
records in both the high
hurdles (7.6) and the long
jump (22'71/2"). Captain
Paul Otto also took two
first places, in the 300-
yarcidash (32.9) and in the
176-yard dash (18.3).
Tom Plocker finished
first in the 880-yard run in
1:58.7, a personal record
for him. Teammate Dave
Jorgenson also set a per-sonal
best in that race and
finished fourth. Don Haus-er
and Jay VanLoon later
set personal records in the
600-yard dash, taking sec-ond
and fifth respectively.
Coach Dave Anderson
was excited about the
improvements made by so
many of the men. The team
competes next at St. Olaf
Saturday, March 14.
I.M. basketball rivals, "The Whiteheads" and "The Cheap Sun- The men's indoor soccer club placed second in the state tournament recently. From top to bottom
glasses" ended the season in a tie game, 36-36. Whiteheads top, are Mark Johnson, Steve Figini, Bo Cedersjo, Joel Kraakurck, Kevin Higgs, Alan Johnson and
The Cheap Sunglasses bottom (photo by Sharon Holasek). Bobby Clark.
Softball team counts on strong defense

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St. cr -77.) e Clarion. Vol. 56 No. 19
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
March 13, 1981
Foundation handles millions in gifts
Foundation men such as
Gunnar Kronholm, a re-tired
banker and the direc-tor
of planned giving for
the Foundation; Rollen
Larson, a CPA and chair-man
of the Foundation;
Don Benson, president of
MEA; and Warren East-lund
serve on the advisor
board. Burt Wessman,
vice president of Bethel's
business affairs, and Pres-ident
Lundquist are also
on the board, as well as a
financial advisor from Pi-per,
Jaffray & Hopwood
Incorporated. The mem-bers
meet quarterly and
on call.
Devries feels that the
forming of the Develop-ment
Foundation was a
step in the right direction.
"Bethel has tended to pre-occupy
itself with the pre-sent,"
said Devries. "When Harvey Devries, president of the non-profit Bethel Foundation,
see page 3 works with $10.6 million in gifts.
by Naomi Ludeman
A ranch in Montana, a
resort in Arizona, a busi-ness
in Albany, New York,
stock in various corpora-tions
and an eight acre lot
across from a shopping
center in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota are only a
few of the gifts given to
Bethel's Development Foun-dation.
Harvey Devries, presi-dent,
said, "The founda-tion
is a separate non-pro-fit
corporation that ac-quires
and manages gifts
given to Bethel College."
The gifts are tax-exempt.
People-usually give their
gifts with certain stipula-by
Ginny Olson
How many times have
you reached for a hymnal
during chapel and there
was nothing there? That
is not surprising consider-ing
there are only 375 left,
one of the reasons the
"New Hymnal for Bethel"
project was started.
The idea for the project
sprung up in a conversa-tion
earlier this year in the
Campus Ministries office
between Lee Eliason, Dave
Horn and Bruce Leafblad.
From the conversation de-veloped
a committee to de-cide
on a new hymnal. The
committee was made up
of C. Howard Smith, Oli-ver
Mogck, Mary Fall, Ger-ry
Sundberg, Horn and
Bruce Leafblad.
The criteria the commit-tee
set up for the new
hymnal was that it con-tain
Scandinavian mater-ial
to fit Bethel's heritage,
represent a wide spectrum
of ethnic music as well as
denominational and non-denominational
as well as
fit in many kinds of situa-tions,
both worship servi-,
ces and sing and shares.
Lastly, the hymnal should
contain the best music of
the past 25 years. "Our
hymnals now are over 25
years old:commented Leafblad.
The hymnal they de-cided
on will be a special
Bethel edition by Cove-nant
Press. It will have
tions or preferences as to
what the money is used
for. "One woman, a retired
nurse," explained Devries,
"gave the foundation a gift
with the stipulation that it
go toward the salary of
the director of the nursing
program. So salaries don't
always come from tui-tion."
The new science
wing is partially financed
by gifts managed by the
. Foundation.
"The Foundation is grow-ing
rapidly," said Devries.
"We started in 1972. By
1975 we had $1.6 million
and as of December 31,
1980 we had $10.6 million.
We also transmitted $1
"The Chapel Hymnal,
Bethel College" printed on
the front and the president
will write a forward that
will be included in .the pre-face.
"We'll be launching the
fund-raising drive at the
March 19 chapel," said
Leafblad. "It will be a hym-nal
festival with a brass
choir, one of the perform-ing
choirs and, hopefully,
million in assets to Be-thel."
The Foundation present-ly
manages 40 trusts: $5.5
million are in securities,
$4 million in real estate
and $1 million in assorted
business interests.
Before the Foundation
was established gifts were
managed by people within
the Baptist General Con-ference
churches. Devries
explained that the dona-tors'
motives were good,
but they did not have the
knowledge or experience
to manage the compli-cated
gifts and large sums
of money.
Since the forming of the
one of the original mem-bers
of the hymnal com-mittee.
The hymnals cost $7
each. One thousand copies
are to arrive in late April.
"We have already raised
over 10 per cent of the
cost," said Leafblad. The
funds will be raised with-in
the community. People
can donate money for half
a hymnal, a whole hym-nal,
or anywhere on up."
by Hellen Gutsche
"We're praying for thou-sands
to come," said Mari-lyn
Eliason, referring to
the Soviet Christian Pro-ject
Observance Day
March 14. A march and an
afternoon rally are plan-ned,
to exhibit concern for
Soviet Christians.
"The major reason I'm
involved is to help Bethel
students become aware
that faith is alive in the
U.S.S.R.," said Eliason. Eli-ason
is a student senator
and assistant director of
the program at Bethel.
Student senate spon-sors
the project at Bethel.
The senators sent out fly-ers,
bulletins and memos
to the Bethel community.
The project's obser-vance
day begins at 9:30
a.m. with the march to the
Capitol from the state fair-grounds.
At noon Gover-nor
Al Quie will hold a
rally. Among the speakers
will be Lisa Vins, daugh-ter
of Soviet Georgi Vins,
an exiled Baptist minister.
Early in February, fol-lowing
a meeting with a
Bethel and Northwestern
delegation, Quie declared
March 14 "Minnesota
Against Religious Oppres-sion
of Soviet Peoples
Day." Twenty to 40 thou-sand
people are expected
to attend the rally.
Bethel, Northwestern
and Wheaton colleges are
among the major partici-pating
schools in the U.S.
In the Twin Cities one to
two thousand students are
expected to march to the
Capitol. Last year Whea-ton
protested the U.S.S.R.'s
treatment of its Chris-tians,
and their efforts
saved Georgi Vins' life.
He was arrested and im-prisoned
until 1979 when
he and three other men
were released to the U.S.
for four Soviet spies. He is
presently living in the U.S.
and spoke in several 1981
interim classes.
Eugene Grossman, chap-el
speaker Thursday, Feb.
Praises sung for coming hymnals
see page 3
Students march on Capitol
26, elaborated on the pur-pose
of the project. He also
explained the march and
the letter-writing cam-paign.
A filmstrip about
the project is being sent to
interested churches.
Grossman said 40-50
per cent of the mail gets
through to the addressee.
Religious cards and pic-tures
are especially appre-ciated
because they are
not marketed in the
U.S.S.R. The Christians
save them and put them
up in their houses.
G. Vins is presently the Letter-writing is impor-
U.S. Secretary of the Re- tant to the Soviet Chris-formed
Baptist Movement tians for encouragement
in the U.S.S.R., with in the faith, said G. Vins.
50,000 - 100,000 Soviet But more important than
members. correspondence is prayer,
Government regula- according to Eliason.
tions were established to "Most of all we want to
limit religious expression, encourage people to pray,"
and Vins marched to she said.
the Kremlin in protest. Publicity is planned be-fore
March 14, including a
press conference. Also in-volved
at Bethel are Steve
Penner, project director,
and Lu Ann Holcomb, pro-ject
secretary. March Cre-mer,
Student Body Presi-dent
at Northwestern, or-
Rauschs'
baby born
January 27
The Clarion is published weekly
by thettuder0 of Bettibl
, opoons, r he Sol
-. bps'
Le reOitiko
Sig and; fiver;
Dear "Bethel-ites,"
Just a note to let you
know that we finally had
our very large baby boy,
Jonathan Daniel Rausch,
10 lb. 4 oz. who was deli-vered
by his father at
home at 3:10 p.m. January
27 (the doctor arrived at
5:30 p.m.).
We want to thank you
for your concern and to
tell you that we love you
and think of you often
(having Doc Dalton and
the Depression House
gang on the National news
helps one to remember as
well!).
Dr. David A. Rausch
ann Kicker, sti"'Writei"'"
Beth. Nystrom, gra hcs
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editorial
Rising costs, unfairexpectations may topple Spire
The word "spire" is often used synonymously with
the word "steeple"—the highest point in a church's
physical structure. Yet at Bethel "Spire" means "year-book",
and in $$$ terms, the Spire is a low point of the
Bethel budget—too low, in fact, to be economically
feasible.
Last May, when the bill to reinstate Bethel's year-book
was quickly pushed through the student senate,
few senators had time to adequately weigh the prob-lems
of reinstating the yearbook. As a result, the Spire
"office" is crammed into the senate office, equipment is
at a bare minimum (what they do have is rented) and,
worst of all, the yearbook's $12,000 budget is at least
$8,000 short of meeting only the printing costs of
$20,000.
Other costs include student stipends, office equip-ment,
shipping costs and photographic supplies, a big
expense of producing a yearbook. An extremely low
estimate for these additional costs might be $3,000.
That's a total of $23,000. The budget revenue can
hardly be called realistic. The result? Advertising must
make up the $11,000 difference.
Sue Norbeck, editor of Wheaton College's yearbook,
"The Tower," said they raise about $2,000 from 12
pages of advertising. Westmont College in Santa Bar-bara,
Calif. raises about $400 to $500 in ads for their
yearbook, the "Citadel," according to editor Mike Wil-son.
They also send patron letters to parents of stu-dents,
publishing the names of contributors, which
brings in $1,500 to $2,000 more. Here in the Twin Cities,
the Colleges of St. Thomas and St. Catherine each
receive no advertising income. Student fees indirectly
pay the entire amount.
To date, the Spire has sold $3,000 in advertising. Not
bad for a yearbook starting from ground zero, with no
regular advertisers to draw on from previous years.
The Clarion, in contrast, has a $21,500 budget, with
printing costs of $12,000. And with $9,000 allocated
strictly for student salaries, the Clarion budget puts the
Spire's to shame.
Last year Bethel's literary arts magazine Passages
(which the Spire replaced) was allocated $10,250 for a
40-page paperback magazine. This year the Spire's
$12,000 budget is expected to cover the costs of produc-ing
a hardback book about twice the size in physical
dimensions, with 224 pages, 24 of which will be in color.
The Spire staff has had enough problems trying to
re-kindle a yearbook tradition at Bethel. It doesn't need
the added worries of an insufficient budget, with the
communications board harping at them to sell more
advertising.
Raising the bare minimum of $8,000 in three months
may be an impossible task. If we don't have the fore-sight
to deal with the Spire's budget problems soon, we
may have to deal with a Pandora's box full of problems
later. Students may refuse to pay a surcharge for the
book if that is needed to balance the budget. The only
other way to solve the problem would be to increase the
budget from Bethel's general fund—an equally difficult
task.
Bethel has been plagued with media disasters in the
past five years. Two years ago, the Roster "reprint" was
published in March (see this week's "From Our Files").
This year, and for the past few years KABY has been
troubled by problems and shut down more than once.
Will our new Spire be the next media disaster?
—jsr
Action on El Salvador crisis
could save lives of thousands
To the Editor:
El Salvador. Some peo-ple
do not know about the
bloody civil war taking
place in that country.
Others can tell about the
13,000 people who have
been killed there in the
past year, over 80 per cent
of whom were killed by
the military forces of the
U.S.-supported govern-ment.
Those best able to tell
about this are those who
have been closest to the
situation: the Roman Cath-olic
Church, Amnesty In-ternational,
former ambas-sador
to El Salvador Ro-bert
White and, most re-cently,
Congressman Ger-ry
Studds, who has come
back from a fact-finding
mission to El Salvador.
These people have led the
growing opposition to
what they have called,
"The Reagan Administra-tion's
Vietnamization of
Central America."
This opposition appears
to know no political boun-daries.
In legislative en-deavors
several Minneso-ta
congressmen of both
parties have endorsed Rep.
Studd's bill to end all mil-itary
aid to the ruling jun-ta
in El Salvador. They
include Representatives
Vento, Oberstar and Er-dahl.
Across the country can
be found this same broad-ly
based opposition. An
advertisement appearing
in the New York Times on
February 3, 1981 read,
"LET THE PEOPLE OF EL
SALVADOR DECIDE!" Its
long list of endorsers re-vealed
that churches and
religious organizations a-long
with political, cultu-ral,
academic and labor
leaders and groups form
the constituency of the
opposition as well as the
many human rights organ-izations.
Even given a majority
of the people of the U.S. on
their side, those favoring
the removal of support for
what they see as a terrible,
unjust and cruel regime
face an uphill struggle.
The Pentagon reportedly
planned to add about 30
military advisors to the 20
already placed in El Sal-vador.
Howard Baker, se-nate
majority leader, was
quoted as saying it would
be "entirely appropirate
for this country to dis-patch
noncombat advisors
in small numbers-50,
100, 150—to tell these
people how to defend them-selves
against Cutia."
Former ambassador
White and those who now
hold his position insist
that the revolution in El
Salvador has been caused
by social injustice rather
than by Cubans or com-munists
instigating sub-version
from the outside.
White and others say that
the statements by Secre-tary
of State Alexander
Haig and other officials
trying to find a commu-nist
connection make a-purely
emotional appeal,
they cannot find a basis
for the communist argu-ments
in the facts.
The issues involved are
confusing and deserve fur-ther
investigation rather
than despair and inaction.
A video presentation des-cribing
the situation in El
Salvador will be shown in
Bethel's campus at an up-coming
time which is yet
to be determined. This will
provide an opportunity for
further investigation.
Another opportunity
comes March 24 when a
one-year commemoration
of the assassination of Sal-vadorean
Archbishop Os-car
Romero will be held.
An interfaith prayer ser-vice
will be held at Church
of the Assumption in St.
Paul at 7 p.m. A candle-light
procession to the
State Capitol follows,
where prominent Minne-sotans
opposed to U.S. mil-itary
and economic aid to
El Salvador will speak at
a rally.
As this event is being
held during Bethel's spring
break, students, faculty,
staff and administration
who will be in the Twin
Cities area will have an
excellent opportunity to
attend.
Tony Anderson
The winners of the Passages
literary and photo contest, to be
part of the Spire, have been
selected: First place winners will
receive $35, second place $25 and
third place $15.
Literary winners:
Photography winners:
First - Ginny Olson, First - Doug Barkey,
"Inner-City Kids"
"Leaves"
Second - Cindy
Second - Steve Mills,
Oberg, "Senior untitled work
Year" SPIRE Third - Judith
Hougen, untitled
composition
Third - Paul
Ackerman, untitled
work
Stu Luckman, associate professor of art, conducted Calvin Col-lege's
first sculpture installation.
Page 3
Forensics continues success
by Dan Wiley
The Bethel debate team
continues its success in
regional and national tour-naments.
February 13- 15 Bethel
debate teams of Ron Nel-son,
Brice Russell, Mark
Publow and Beth Neufeld,
competed at the Univer-sity
of Arkansas Invita-tional,
Fayetteville, Ark.
Publow and Neufeld had
the best showing for Be-thel,
competing against 23
teams representing eleven
states: California, Illinois,
Nebraska, Missouri, Kan-sas,
Iowa, New Mexico,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tex-as
and Minnesota. They
made it to the octa-final
round where they lost a
close decision to Califor-nia
State University-
Northridge.
The weekend of Febru-ary
28, Publow and Neu-feld
traveled to the Uni-versity
of Nebraska-Lin-coln
Invitational. They com-peted
in both debate and
individual events. In de-bate
competition, they lost
a close decision to the Uni-versity
of South Dakota.
Neufeld ranked as the
top individual debator in
the Cross Examination De-bate
Association (CEDA)
division. In the individual
competition both Neufeld
and Publow made it to the
final round in extemporan-eous
speaking. Neufeld al-so
made the finals in im-promptu
speaking.
The individual events
team continues to develop
experience. February 20-
21 Laura Stratton, Linda
Nylen, Joy Diacou and Peg-gy
Hardie traveled to the
University of Wisconsin-
Eau Claire fora major Mid-west
tournament. Despite
the fact that none of the
Bethel participants made
it to the final rounds,
Coach Butch Maltby said
the young squad learned a
great deal from their corn-petition.
Luckman installs "Night Sailors" Study tour to dig Israel
by Shari Goddard
A sculpture installation
gives the impression of al-most
walking into the mid-dle
of a sculpture. The piece
seems more massive when
surrounded by walls than
when standing outside.
It took Stewart (Stu)
Luckman, associate pro-fessor
of art, two and a
half days to set up "Night
Sailors," a sculpture spe-cially
designed for an in-stallation
at Calvin Col-lege,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Following the March 3 open-ing,
Luckman gave a talk
on the piece. He views it
as a way for artists to look
at energy.
Luckman built the work
at Bethel, but transported
it to Michigan by truck.
The dimensions of the gal-lery
allowed him to fill
most of the gallery with
To the Editor:
One question: Why are
the racquetball courts on-ly
open for two hours on
Sundays?
More reasonable hours
would be from 1 - 5 and 8-
11. This would allow stu-dents
time for Sunday
night services, "without
sacrificing church for rac-y
ue t ball." Racquetball
does not require any paid
supervision.
On Sunday afternoon
and evenings there are two
activities available—study-ing
or sleeping. Racquet-ball
would allow a little
diversion from this monot-the
work. It snakes its
way as one continuous tub-ular-
steel line almost to
the ceiling of the room and
out the door.
"I talked to them last
year," said Luckman.
"They firmed up a date
last October....It was an
opportunity to approach a
sculpture in a much dif-ferent
way than usual. I
offered them the idea of
doing an installation." He
added that installations
are new for both Calvin
College and himself. The
actual construction of the
piece took three to four
months.
"Night Sailors" has re-ceived
favorable reactions
from Calvin, according to
Luckman. "I haven't seen a
review yet, in a newspa-per;
it could be completely
the opposite," said Luck-onous
cycle.
To those who desire the
courts closed on Sunday
because of the "Day of
Rest" idea, I suggest they
stay on campus for a Sun-day
afternoon and even-ing,
to see how "restful"
and boring a Sunday is.
Using our bodies to play
racquetball on Sunday
does not mean we aren't
worshiping God.
Crystal Engel
PO 427
P.S. How many other stu-dents
and faculty would
like to see the courts more
available on Sundays?
man, adding that an artist
can not let reviews worry
him, "or you stop dead in
your tracks."
While installations are
new to Luckman, exhibi-tions
are not. "I think it's
natural to exhibit; we're
social beings; it's part of
our lives." Galleries in
New York and Boston, mu-seums
and many colleges
and universities have
shown Luckman's works.
by Hellen Gutsche
Camping by the Sea of
Galilee, snorkeling
through the Red Sea coral
reefs and excavating an
Old Testament city are
among the plans for Beth-el's
seven week study tour
of Israel this summer.
Carl Rasmussen, associ-ate
professor of Biblical
studies will lead and in-struct
the two credit
course. Tenative dates are
set for June 3 - July 25. "It's
a great way to have the
Bible come alive," said
Rasmussen.
The first three weeks
will be centered in Jerusa-lem.
The course of study
will include Israel's his-tory,
geography and arche-ology.
Ten days will be
spent in field study.
The students will be par-ticipating
in this program
at the Institute for Holy
Land Studies (IHLS). Ras-mussen
is an IHLS adjunct
professor.
Excavation will occupy
the next four weeks of
study. Lachish, the Old
Testament city conquered
by Joshua and Nebuchad-nezzer,
University of Tel
Aviv will supervise the
project.
Chapel Schedule
Monday - Rev. Ben Pat-terson,
Wittenburg
Door
Tuesday - Rev. Ben Pat-terson
Wednesday - Lee Elia-son,
worship service
Thursday - Hymn Fes-tival
Friday - Father Jim Sin-not,
human rights
Soviets, from page 1
ganizes the Twin City ef-fort.
The senate encourages
writing to the local, state
and federal level adminis-trations
to push for hu-man
rights. Eliason pro-jects
the march and rally
to be a yearly event.
Living quarters will be
tents pitched within five
minutes walk of the city
amid, a grove of eucalyp-tus
trees. "Doesn't that
sound romantic?" Rasmus-sen
chuckled.
All four weekends will
be free for touring and
informal travel. "We may
rent a car or van, drive to
the Sea of Galilee and
camp there for a night,"
said Rasmussen.
The group will be 8-11
students from college and/
or seminary. Credit is of-fered
at both schools. The
entire estimated cost is
$2,500 including airfare,
room, board, etc. The ten-ative
schedule will be fi-nalized
with the airline at
a later date.
Foundation
from page 1
it gets money it usually
spends it right away be-cause
it has had to." Now
Bethel can plan for the
future with better accura-cy
and bigger dreams.
The Development Foun-dation
is a model for other
colleges across the nation.
It has trained 30 people
from other colleges who
have raised $70 million.
Fifteen seminaries have
also followed the pattern
and raised $10.5 million.
There will be picket-making
parties the week
before the march and
transportation will be pro-vided
to the fairgrounds
March 14, New Campus at
9 a.m.
Any questions should
be directed to the senate
office or Eliason.
Sunday racquetball
can provide diversion
Kleven, Kreutzfeld, Publow paired . II
Mark Publow and Cheryl Thomas.
Mike Wiseman and Rick Kreutzfeldt.
Karen Evans. and Mike Kleven
Lifestyle statement masks lifestyle decay
by Matt Weber
This article is written to express a concern, a concern
which stems from a sense that Bethel College has
entered a phase of deterioration in academics. The
problem is not found in the academic program, but
rather comes as a result of the student body's general
misconception of what it means to be a Christian in a
Christian liberal arts college.
If one were to ask students what makes Bethel unique
as a Christian institution, one would probably get an
answer that:
1) has surprisingly little to do with academics;
2) is heavily weighted in terms of a "lifestyle"
concept;
3) and which suffers from mistaking subculture
lifestyle for that which should be a Christian
lifestyle.
Perhaps the major reason Bethel students seem to
forget that academics are a part of Bethel's Christian
experience is that Bethel places an emphasis on a life-style
that is unrelated to learning. How does the fact
that I do not smoke influence the way I read a book? In
other words Bethel operates not as a Christian liberal
arts college, but rather as a subculture gathering place
that just "happens" to have a college on the same
grounds. A gap has formed between learning for learn-ing's
sake and living as a Christian that has influenced
students to perceive Bethel as unique from a secular
school only in terms of lifestyle.
But why is this happening? I find the cause of the
above phenomena difficult to pinpoint. From my expe-rience,
the faculty seems clearly devoted to the concept
of Christian liberal arts. This is reflected in the fact that
most of my classes have involved the attempt by the
professor lo incorporate class material with a Christian
perspective. However, a Christian perspective is some-thing
to be developed, not spoon-fed or forced upon a
student. Professors can only allow the opportunity for
students to grapple with the material, an experience
which students can use to expand and develop their
world view.
Unfortunately, students do not conceive the Chris-tian
aspect of Bethel playing a large part in this process
of struggling with class material; as a result, Christian
liberal arts slowly deteriorates. I am not claiming that
Bethel has succumbed to total apathy and that all stu-dents
are dead to academics. But I do see a creeping
malaise that, if left to fester, could develop into a
serious illness, or one that could be prevented by a little
fresh air and some creative thinking.
As it stands, much of the Bethel lifestyle statement is
culturally based and has very little to do with Chris-tianity.
I am asking Bethel to be honest enough to admit
that lifestyle rules are part of a Baptist subculture tradi-tion,
that they are designed to help us ease the tensions
of community living, and that they have nothing to do
with making Bethel a Christian college. In fact, the
improper emphasis upon them is hampering the effec-tiveness
of Bethel as a liberal arts college.
Bethel needs to emphasize a Christian lifestyle. A
Christian lifestyle is one free of hate, gossip, hypocricy,
racism, sexism, etc. A Christian lifestyle maifests the
fruits of the spirit and carries with it the responsibility
to act out the redemptive qualities initiated by Jesus
Christ. Thus we not only avoid something like racism,
but we should strive to eliminate it. A Christian lifes-tyle
also carries with it the responsibility to have an
open mind that is willing to learn about all God's crea-tion.
If we are to carry out our redemptive responsi-bility
we need to understand our world.
Once students realize what a Christian lifestyle
entails and recognize that it has nothing to do with the
lifestyle statement, academics can be seen in a proper
perspective. It is learning and Christian lifestyle to-gether
that can make Bethel unique. We cannot drive a
wedge between the two. They are inseparable. I would
cite the fact that the art department had to remove the
artwork from the halls as a prime example of Bethel's
failure to put academics and Christianity into proper
perspective. The art department is an essential part of
our community. To vandalize its work is an obvious
violation of a Christian lifestyle, yet the art department
was met with as much indifference as sympathy. If
Bethel had a Christian lifestyle commitment we would
all have felt responsible for taking an active part in
eliminating the typical evangelical Protestant reaction
to the arts, and perhaps have prevented this incident.
The lifestyle statement is only as effective as the red
dye injected into hamburger at a grocery store. It can
make us look like a nice fresh Christian school. but
underneath brown decay can creep in. I challenge
Bethel to promote Christian living, make students
aware that the lifestyle cannot do this for them, and
incorporate this new mind set into academics. I am sure
the faculty is more than ready for the change.
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...with Evans, Wiseman, Thomas in race
Editor's note: the 1981
senate election campaigns
have begun, with students
going to the polls on Tues-day
and Wednesday,
March 17 and 18. Positions
to be chosen include four
sophomore senators, four
junior senators, three se-nior
senators, four sena-tors-
at-large, as well as
the presidential and vice-presidential
positions.
This year, like last year,
three presidential teams
will pursue the offices of
president and vice-presi-dent:
Mark Publow (pres-ident)
and Cheryl Thomas
(vice-president); Rick
Kreutzfeldt (president)
and Mike Wiseman (vice-president);
and Mike Kle-ven
(president) and Karen
Evans (vice-president). To
get at the issues involved,
the Clarion asked each of
the candidates to respond
to four questions:
What do you perceive are
the responsibilities of the
president and vice-presi-dent
positions?
Publow-Thomas
The president and vice-president
of the student
association function not on-ly
as leaders of the student
senate, but as a reflection
of, and a challenge to, the
entire student body.
The president and vice-president
are to function
as representatives of the
student voice, interfacing
with the administration
not only to announce pol-icy
change but to insure
student participation in
that change. Pragmatical-ly,
this requires the presi-dent
to help facilitate im-plementation
of senatorial-ly-
initiated legislation, to
act as a student represen-tative
at various adminis-trative
meetings and to
work with the vice-presi-dent
in giving a challeng-ing
vision to both the sen-ate
and the student body
whom it serves. The vice-president
also functions as
an organizer of, and ad-ministrator
to, the senate.
Both are to function al-ways
as servants, offering
creative leadership in an
atmosphere of openness.
Kreutzfeldt-Wiseman.
The duties of the presi-dent
as we foresee them
are to create an air of cred-ibility
and cohesiveness be-tween
the senate and the
student body, the senate
and the faculty, and be-tween
the senate and the
administration. Secondly,
he should make a concert-ed
effort to instill in each
senator the realization that
a senatorial position is the
major commitment of that
student for the year other
than classes. Finally, he
should make sure that
each individual's potential
is used to the greatest ex-tent
through the wise exer-cise
of his power of dele-gation
of duties.
The duties of the vice-president
are largely to act
as a support of the presi-dent.
In order to do this
effectively, the vice-presi-dent
will be expected to
act as liaison between the
senate and the faculty and
administration. He will im-plement
and oversee the
internal organization of
the senate. The third ma-j6r
duty is to preside over
senate meetings, and create
an atmosphere that is con-ducive
to the efficient oper-ation
of a senatorial body.
Kleven - Evans.
We feel that each posi-tion
is as important as the
other. Having been involv-ed
in senate we both see
the importance of these
positions and the hard
work that they involve.
We see the vice president
as someone who holds
everything together, as
chairman of the commun-ication
board and head of
the senate. We see the pres-ident's
position as one that
is representative of the stu-dents.
He is their line of
communication to the ad-ministration;
he also
works on the concerns of
the students.
How do you feel you are
qualified for the positions
you wish to assume?
Publow-Thomas.
Able leadership is a key
to senate effectiveness. I
have had four years of
student government expe-rience,
one year of service
on the Communications
Board, and two years of
debate experience at Be-thel.
I am a member of
Sundouloi, a group of stu-dents
who work with the
admissitms office. And I
have had extensive politi-cal
involvement, includ-ing
serving as chairperson
of the Page Committee at a
state political convention.
Cheryl has served as a
freshman and sophomore
senator. She has also
served as Midwest Region-al
Director for the Ameri-can
Association of Evan-gelical
Students (AAES),
attending two national
AAES conventions and
serving a congressional in-ternship.
She is currently
National Policies Director
for AAES.
Kreutzfeldt - Wiseman.
We feel qualified because
of the combination of skills
we can offer the student
body. We both have a tre-mendous
concern for the
apathetic and lackadaisi-cal
attitudes many people
have toward senate (includ-ing
some senators). We feel
with our combination of
experience linked with a
new creativeness the stu-dent
senate is definitely
going to change, and it
will change for the better.
Rick Kreutzfeldt:
1) Primary senate exper-ience.
2) Served on Special Pro-jects
Committee.
3) Served on Social Con-cerns
Committee at his
home church.
4) Member of the Bethel
College debate squad 1979-
81.
Mike Wiseman.
1) Member of the Bethel
College debate squad 1979-
81.
2) Currently works in the
communications depart-ment
as a T.A.
3) Served on various com-mittees
in high school for
public service.
Kleven - Evans.
Karen and I feel that our
past experiences and pre-sent
involvements have gi-ven
us some valuable qual-ifications
for these impor-tant
positions. Karen has
been involved in senate
since her freshman year
and is currently chairman
of the Public Action Com-mittee.
I am now presently a
senator-at-large, working
on the Special Projects
Committee. I am also ac-tively
involved with Wel-come
Week. Through our
involvement we have laid
some valuable ground-work
with many key peo-ple
on campus. Also we
have held many leadership
positions outside of
school. These include our
experience with short term
missions, teaching, organ-izing
and leadership posi-tions
within the church.
Through our experiences
we feel that we have the
ability and ambition to fill
these positions.
What do you feel is the
most important issue that
senate will confront next
year? How would you han-dle
it?
Publow-Thomas.
The most important is-sue
that senate must face
next year is the challenge
of defining its very pur-pose
and role at Bethel.
The senate has become
somewhat less than mean-ingful
to the average stu- .
dent, if not completely
meaningless. ,
Cheryl and I see the root
of that problem as stem-ming
from a conceptual
uncertainly of senate's pur-pose.
Senate is to repre-sent
the student body, yet
many students don't even
know who their senators
are. Senate is to insure
student input and partici-pation
in community
change, yet many stu-dents
only hear of changes
in our community after it's
too late to participate in
them. Senate is to be a
mirror, reflecting back to
us our own sense of pur-pose
and potential. Yet
many students are so un-informed
of senate that
they could get a better re-flection
of themselves by
starring into Lake Valen-tine.
Cheryl and I would con-front
this challenge by in-creasing
student aware-ness,
implementing pro-grams
which would meet
student needs and offer-ing
leadership which can
both give vision and pro-duce
action.
Kreutzfeldt - Wiseman.
The major problem for
the senate next year will
be one of reorganization
and the establishment of
priorities. In the past, sen-ate
has not been organized
in a manner conducive to
accomplishing its goals; it
has struggled with many
trivial issues which bog
down the senate opera-tions.
As president and
vice-president, we will di-rect
senate's priorities and
internal structures into a
direction of accomplish-ment.
As of now there is
an immediate need for sen-ate
to be reorganized and
its priorities to be set
straight. We need to orient
our committees more to-ward
the student body. In
order to give senate a great-er
credibility with the stu-dents,
it must serve the
students.
The finance committee
would receive the most at-tention
from us. At pres-ent,
the committee simply
passes the monetary re-quests
before it.
The Special Projects
Committee needs the most
serious redefining. Current-ly,
this committee is in-volved
on campus as well
as off. For students to see
how senate influences
their lives, the Special Pro-jects
Committee should
concentrate on those is-sues
that directly affect
students.
Kleven - Evans.
We feel the most impor-tant
problem facing Bethel
is apathy. We want stu-dents
to know what is go-ing
on, show concern, and
take an active part.
We know this is not a
task we can accomplish
ourselves. We want to ac-complish
this through the
student senate, because
the senate has been set up
to benefit the student
body. However, there are
some changes we see that
need to be made.
First I.,ve would place
more responsibility on the
senator and the senator at
large positions, thus draw-ing
people of greater com-mitment
to these posi-tions.
We feel the only way
to get students involved is
to get student leaders in-volved.
Second, we want you to
know what your student
senate is and how you can
use it. Too much time has
passed with no one caring.
Studentsell'iate can only
work if it works for you.
What are your other major
platform programs for the
1981-82 school year?
Publow-Thomas.
Our first area of empha-sis
is that of community.
Bethel claims to be a Chris-tian
community, but it of-ten
seems that we are un-clear
as to what a Chris-tian
community is, much
less how to live in one.
Programs which could
meet this need include spon-s
ors h i p of a convocation
series early next . year on
"Definining Christian Com-m
uni ty," a weekly Clarion
column to report to you on
Senate's activities, open
meeting times scheduled
with student organiza-tions
so that varying per-spectives
can be voiced
and acted upon and sche-duled
open meetings with
one dormitory, townhouse
or apartment complex
weekly, so that individual
student's opinions can be
raised. Senate members
would also be active in
Welcome Week, and an in-tensive
two-day training
seminar would be sched-uled
for all senators.
Two other important
areas of community im-provement
would be the
implementation of a sen-ate
- run book sale at the
beginning of each term for
all used textbooks and the
redecoration of our dining
facilities through a student-initiated
and student-designed
project.
A second area of focus
is academics and adminis-tration.
Programs in this
area include the possible
gain of a student vote• on
the board of regents, the
implementation of a fresh-man
honors program, care-ful
study of and participa-tion
in budget cuts and
proposals, a call for a de-creased
student-faculty ra-tio
and the possibility of
extended library hours.
Each of the above pro-grams
are designed to in-crease
student awareness
and meet community
needs. The creative lead-ership
that Cheryl and I
offer is designed not just
to fulfill our responsibili-ties
or to do a job, but to
insure responsive and re-sponsible
change.
Kreutzfeldt-Wiseman.
1) Make new senators
familiar with parliamen-tary
procedure. This is ab-solutely
necessary for sen-ators
to work in an at-mosphere
conducive to ser-ious
discussion.
2) Continue to support
the yearbook.
3) Write a document that
would crystallize the im-portant
objectives of the
senate and give senate
some long-term concrete
goals to continually be
working toward.
4) Confront such issues
as equitable visitation, on-campus
overnight housing
for commuters and student
financing.
Kleven - Evans.
There are several things
we would like to imple-ment
in the 1981 -82 school
year. Here are three on the
top of our list:
First, we would like to
see the senate doing things
for students in a visible
way. Our goal is not to
raise large sums of money,
but rather to use the mon-ey
that we do have visibly
for the students.
Second, we want to cre-ate
a working relationship
with the Campus Coordi-nators.
This is essential in
planning projects, and in
supporting each other in
the projects that are under-taken.
This has not been
done effectively in the
past.
Finally, we see an untap-ped
resource in the Twin
Cities that we want to get
involved with. Other Chris-tian
Colleges have good
ideas we could use at Beth-el.
We see these schools as
great opportunities to ex-pand
our Christian fellow-ship.
We are willing to
share our successes with
them, and we want to
learn from their success-es.
1981
BETHEL
ELECTIONS
Vote in the student
senate elections on
Tuesday and
Wednesday,
March 17 and 18.
The Madwoman of Chaillot (Dorothy Lynn Holstrom) becomes the center of attention of her "establishment" as the Waiter (Peter
Saufferer) serves the drinks and the Flower Girl (Leslie Schirm) quietly watches. The play runs through Saturday night (photo by
Doug Barkey).
Page 6
SMP opens orientation session to public I nNke.o comment.
by Tony Anderson
The Student Missionary
Project Orientation Com-mittee
is inviting the gen-eral
public to attend its
orientation seminar, held
at Bethany Baptist Church
Saturday, March 14. At
this seminar the theologi-cal
foundations of mis-sions
will be investigated.
by Tony Anderson
Father Jim Sinnott, a
Maryknoll priest and hu-man
rights speaker, will
be speaking in chapel and
classes from Saturday,
March 14 through Friday,
March 20.
Sinnott was a Mary-knoll
missionary in South
Korea for 15 years. He
became involved in pub-licly
criticizing the U.S. -
supported government of
Park Chung Hee in 1973
when it instituted the death
penalty for political dis-sent.
In April 1975, he was
arrested by the South Kor-ean
police and expelled
from the country for "pol-itical
acts disturbing the
public order."
Since that time he has
been speaking on human
rights issues to various
groups around the coun-try.
He has also traveled
to Latin America and writ-ten
a book about his expe-riences
in South Korea.
Sinnott has been in the
Twin Cities several times
before. In addition to regu-lar
speaking engagements,
he has appeared on local
television talk shows.
Sinnott's Bethel itiner-ary
is as follows:
Saturday, March 14, 9:30
a.m. SMP orientation sem-i
na r, Bethany Baptist
Church
Tuesday, March 17, 1:55
p.m. Principles of Manage-ment
Wednesday, March 18,
9:10 a.m. Social Problems
Wednesday, March 18, 2:30
p.m. Hebrew Prophets
Thursday, March 19,12:10
p.m. Human Resources
Management
Thursday, March 19, 1:55
p.m. Christian Ethics
Because of the exciting
agenda, SMP would like
to make this seminar avail-able
to as many as possi-ble.
The first session begins
at 9:30 a.m. and ends at
11:30 a.m. A panel discus-sion
by three people with
differing theological view-points
and social analyses
begins the session. One
Friday, March 20, 10:20
a.m. Chapel Address
Friday, March 20, 11:00
a.m. Luncheon and Discus-sion
by Joy Nannette Banta
And they say we aren't
all mad. Some of us might
be surprised how far from
sane we really are. But
even the craziest of wo-men
(and men) are some-times
the most insightful
members of society, recog-nizing
the necessity of de-stroying
the wicked.
The Madwoman of Chail-lot
(pronounced shy-o)
takes on the monumental
task of exterminating the
wicked people of the
world. Directed by Susan
Ogden-Malouf, the thea-tre
department's first
spring play conquers the
realm of sanity and catch-es
a bright glimpse of mad-ness.
There is no simple way
to describe the sequence
of events. One must wit-ness
the revelation of the
world's wickedness to the
madwoman, hear the plot-ting
of prospectors and
presidents to strike oil —
wealth!, and watch four
madwomen plot, try and
convict the men responsi-panel
member will be John
Piper, a former Bethel pro-fessor
and now pastor at
Bethlehem Baptist Church,
Mpls. Don Belton, who is
currently teaching at Be-thel
in the social work de-partment,
and Jim Sinnott,
a former Maryknoll mis-sionary
in South Korea
round out the panel. The
panelists will address the
topics of "God, History,
and Mission," "Mission Is-sues
and Social Analysis"
and "Advising on Direc-tion
in Missions."
A 20-minute filmstrip en-titled
"Guess Who's Corn-ing
To Breakfast" will fol-low
the discussion. The
filmstrip is an introduc-ble
for the destruction of
their beautiful world.
Countess Aurelia (the
Madwoman of Chaillot),
played by Dorothy Lynn
Holstrom, is a marvelous
character, filled with
depth, sincerity, insight
and a wonderful sense of
the unexpected. Her words
are as unpredictable as any
insanity plea.
As the Countess moves
in and out of real and ima-ginary
worlds, one would
almost believe that she
possesses a wisdom far
greater than any of the
conniving men whom she
strives to overcome. And
tion to the problem of struc-tural
evil and world hun-ger.
The second session beg-ins
at 12:45. Two distinct
_ sets of problems will be
presented through visual
media. "The Challenge Be-fore
Us" (15 minutes) pre-sents
a traditional, evan-gelical
view of the scope of
the Church's mission. The
ABC documentary, "The
Politics of Torture," fol-lows.
Concluding this ses-sion
will be a discussion
on the nature and scope of
the Church's mission in
light of the insights pres-ented
in the day's sessions.
A $1 donation is request-ed.
maybe she does.
Holstrom does a con-vincing
job with the char-acter,
adding her own
touches of ingenious play-fulness.
The audience has
no choice but to become
attached to the character.
- Beside the countess
stands Mme. Constance,
the Madwoman of Passy,
portrayed by Nancy John-son.
One finds her lovable
as she wobbles around in
a quaint sort of way, chas-ing,
petting, picking up
and scolding her once-de-ceased
dog Dickie. Imagi-nary
though he may be,
Dickie steals your heart
Priest coming to talk
on human rights issue
along with Constance as
they carry on with Aure-lia,
the Countess.
Add to the already amu-sing
line of madwomen
Mlle. Gabrielle, the Mad-woman
of St. Sulpice, and
there can be no denying
the amusement that is af-forded.
Gabrielle's naivete
is cause for many chuck-les
and snickers when the
three women work out
their plan for extermina-tion
of the wicked.
There was no shortage
of love in this epic of sani-ty
versus madness. The
maid, Irma, and the Pros-pector's
assistant, Pierre,
portrayed by Judy Niemi
andKevin Hanson, demon-strated
the coming toge-ther
of two worlds and the
triumph over ugly wicked-ness.
Also deserving of com-mendation
are Rick Rees
for excellent set, costume
and lighting design (the
set construction and use
of space worked excep-tionally
well) and Doro-thy
Holmstrom for fantas-tic
make-up and hair de-sign.
The special meanings
and significance of the
see next page
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1979 marred by
snow and ice,
blotchy Roster
Roster problems.
The perfected Bethel ros-ter
was expected to arrive Ice problems.
within three weeks, Com- Snow and ice accumu-munications
Board Chair- lation on townhouse roofs
man Jim Torgerson an- created problems for town-flounced.
The original 1978- house residents, as roofs
79 roster had been plagued were leaking, and in one
with a number of produc- incident, a ceiling col-tion
problems, and was lapsed.
being reprinted because of Jim Woods, director of
the poor quality of the orig- physical plant, blamed
inal roster. poor insulation and mal-
Phodale Photo Company, functioning valves for the
publisher of the roster, problems. "Heavy ice, up
"made a fatal assumption: to 18 inches thick, kept the
that Bethel students would melted snow from running
want to submit informa- off the roof. The trapped
tion and photos for the water then seeped through
roster." When the informa- the shingles and ceilings."
tion did not arrive on time, The ceiling collapsed in
Phodale missed its print- one townhouse, but was
ing deadline. replaced temporarily.
The Roster then had to The college hired steam-be
printed between the ers to melt the ice at $45
printer's other jobs, and per hour.
arrived later in the semes-
From the March 2, 1979 ter with "black-blotched"
issue. photos. The printer later
agreed to reprint the Ros-ter
in March.
Page 7
Physics phaculty to perphorm phor all
by Wendy Norberg
The women's track team
spent a long day last Sat-urday
at the Southern Min-nesota
Relays in Mankato,
facing the toughest com-petition
the state has to
offer. Yet Coach Cindy
Book was pleased that
everyone achieved a per-sonal
goal or a best time.
In the finals of the 55-
meter dash Captain Lynn
Severson and Danette Bur-gess
finished third and
fourth respectively. Ear-lier,
in the semi-finals, Bur-gess
set a Bethel record in
that event in 7.3 seconds.
Both women also com-bined
efforts with Sherri
Lindquist and Jenny Bur-gess
to set a Bethel record
in the 4X one lap relay.
The medley relay team
of Tammy Ruck, Deb Sen-
Madwoman
from page 6
story cannot be lost in the
madness. Though it takes
awhile to be drawn into
the plot, as the play pro-gresses
the point becomes
increasingly clear. It is not
until the end that reality
comes around, though.
What is real and what is
make-believe fogs togeth-er
and sends the mind spin-ning.
But as the memory of
the story lingers, its mean-ing
stands out. When Gab-rielle
confronted Aurelia
in a fit of criticism and
dared to say that Aurelia's
pearls were not real, Aure-lia
was quick to reply that
admittedly they weren't
real at one time, but, "Isn't
it true that pearls become
real as you wear them?
Gabrielle then replied,
sion, Libby Schevenius
and Brenda Harris won
their heat and finished
sixth overall. Sension also
did well in the field events,
taking sixth in the high
jump with 5' and fifth in
the long jump with a 15'3"
jump.
Teammate Kathy Kvan
finished sixth in the shot
put. Distance runners
Wendy Norberg and Ellie
Abbott ran the 3,000-
meter, Norberg tying Ab-bott's
indoor record at
11:02.
At Mankato each school
could send only two par-ticipants
in each event, so
only part of Bethel's team
was able to go. Tonight
the team looks forward to
competing in the St. Olaf
Invite as a total unit once
again.
"And isn't it the same with
memories?" One might
tend to think so.
The play is a fine exam-ple
of well-blended char-acterization.
Director Og-den-
Malouf, in her first
Bethel production, coordi-nated
the rather large cast
to present a complex tale
in fine style.
Once the plot has been
planned, the fourth and
last madwoman joins the
trio. Mme. Josephine, the
Madwoman of La Con-corde,
acts as judge over
the trial of the wicked.
Josephine, played by Aud-rey
I. Huizinga, projects
sternness and determina-tion
of purpose as she car-ries
out the duties of court
head.
Not to be forgotten are
the wicked men them-selves.
Brian Joyce, the
by Tim Wilbee
Holograms, lasers, acous-tics
and microprocessors
... material for science
heads only? Not at all,
claims Rick Peterson, Beth-el's
newest physics profes-sor.
Through a series of
evening demonstrations
from March 2 until early
May, the physics faculty
hopes to convey the crea-tive
side of physics and
engineering to the Bethel
population.
Every Monday at 7 p.m.
in AC 233 informal pre-sentations
by faculty and
students will focus on dif-ferent
projects and exper-iments.
Open to anyone,
these lectures/discussions
are geared to increase
awareness of the Bethel
physics department's
growing role here on cam-pus.
In the past, it has
been of limited size and
resources, as evidenced by
its lack of space and, be-fore
this year, only two
professors. The addition
of Peterson to the tandem
of R.A. Carlsen and Tom
Greenlee is one indication
of the department's
growth.
The new addition also
indicates the increasing
size and resources availa-ble
to the pre-engineering
and physics programs. A
new optics lab, laser work-room
and valuable storage
President; Greg Lee, the
Prospector; and Myron Z.
Hovda, the Baron, work
convincingly together to
create an atmosphere of
shrewd enterprise and de-ceit.
When they change
roles to all portray presi-dents,
then prospectors
and finally, press agents,
the characters come to life,
revealing many-faced
"men of the world."
The aura of craziness —
madness — is consistent-ly
augmented by an ab-surd
Little Man, Philip
Barker; a Sincere Waiter,
Peter Saufferer; one-tune
Street Singer, Terry John-son;
the sweet Flower Girl,
Leslie Schirm; a profound
DeafMute, Sharon Allen;
a Shoelace Peddler, Mark
space will greatly aug-ment
the existing facili-ties.
Peterson cited the in-convenience
of always
having to set up and take
down equipment as one of
the main detriments of the
present conditions. Beth-el's
new optics table, wait,
ing for the completion of
the addition, is presently
kept in the electronics
workroom in AC 227.
Peterson views the new
addition as a means to
service areas of the school.
Chemistry, biology, engi-neering
and even art and
music students will profit
from the new facilities.
This outlook of service to
other departments is what
prompted the physics fa-culty
to begin the series of
Monday night presenta-tions
this semester. Free
cookies and punch com-plement
the talks, many of
which are student pro-jects.
"We want current -stu-dents
to be aware of our
plans for the next few
years as we move into the
new science addition," Pe-terson
said. "In addition to
the added classroom lab-oratory
space, the physics
area will allow room and
shop facilities for longer
term student/faculty ex-perimental
research pro-jects."
Many of the Monday
evening sessions will
spring from such projects,
including holography, mu-
Chapman; a money-hun-gry
Broker Jeff Sprinkel; a
skillful and amusing
Street Juggler, Jahn Dy-vik;
a silent Doorman,
Bruce Person; and wader-clad
Sewer-Man, Scott
Robertson.
Other amusing charac-ters
were the knowledga-ble
Dr. Jadin, Martin Mas-terjohn,
and the by-the-book
Policeman, Larry
Smith. The able-bodied
and street-wise Sargeant
was capably portrayed by
Mike Wiseman. Three "wo-men
of questionable re-pute"
were portrayed by
Elizabeth Talbot, Cheryl
Thomas and Robin West-lund;
the three carried the
roles well.
sical acoustics, micropro-cessors
and laser construc-tion.
"Science isn't much fun
until you dig in and get
your hands dirty;" said Pe-terson.
"We want more dir-ty
hands in the AC at
Bethel!"
March 16 "Microproces-sor
Applications at Beth-el"
including student de
scriptions of interactive
experiments from Interim
March 30 "Laser Construc-tion
at Bethel" including
dye laser currently being
tested and the line-tun-able
CO,laser to be com-pleted
during Fall '81
April 13 "Current Prob-lems
in Fusion Power Gen-eration"
magnetic confine-ment
vs. laser initiated in-ertial
confinement tech-niques
April 27 "Career and Cur-riculum
Choices," faculty
and student discussion of
current career alterna-tives
in physics and engi-neering
and their influen-ces
on our curriculum
(1981-1985)
May 4 Physics and Pre-
Engineering Awards Din-ner
(6 p.m.) - Film: The
Life and Times of Edward
Teller
The creative side of physics is revealed in demonstrations such
as this interferogram showing vibrational modes of a handbell.
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I.M. b-ball rivals tie in showdown
Page 8
Spring season opening
promises growth in skills
by Mark Wollan
The Royal baseball team
is off and running, and
that is no exaggeration,
according to first-year
coach Tom Wolcyn. "We
will be an aggressive ball
club. Offensively we will
do a lot of bunting and
stealing hoping to cause
the other team to make
mistakes," he said.
Wolcyn came to Bethel
this year from the Univer-sity
of Minnesota. He
played baseball- for the
University from 1972-1975
and was a part of two big
ten championship teams.
He continued on as a coach
from 1976-1979.
Wolcyn is being assist-ed
this year by John Priest-ly,
Mary Hadenfeldt and
George Palke. In addition,
trainer Neal Dutton will
work with the team while
they train and play in
by Rob Haglund
A strong defense, good
team speed and a balanced
hitting attack are the key
ingredients of the 1981
Bethel women's • softball
team. Head Coach Marcia
LaRock has three infield-ers
and two outfielders re-turning
from last year's
squad, which finished
with a 10-9 record.
The tri-captains of this
Texas during spring
break.
The key to good compet-itive
baseball is good
pitching, according to Wol-cyn.
"If we can develop
strong, consistent pitch-ing,
we have the potential
to win the conference," he
said. The players are con-fident
and eager to prove
themselves as a MIAC
power. Captain Paul Lind-berg
looks at this season
as an ideal opportuntiy to
"develop a foundation for
the baseball program to be
built upon."
Overall, the Royal base-ball
team promises a
spring filled with exciting
competitive baseball. The
members are young, ag-gressive
and under the di-rection
of a new coaching
staff which promises to
surprise a lot of teams.
year s team are junior
catcher Julie Murphy and
junior infielders Julie Pet-erson
and Tammy Miller.
Kim Schmidt will play
first base in an infield that
LaRock feels will be very
strong defensively.
Returning sophomores
Beckie Bruss and Gail
Heinsch anchor the out-field.
Chris Johnson will
be the starting pitcher and,
although she does not
Monday night intramu-rals
featured a crowd-pleas-ing
showdown between
the "Whiteheads" and the
"Cheap Sunglasses."
These two teams battled it
out to decide which team
was the worst in the "B"
league division of basket-ball.
At the half, the score
have a lot of experience,
LaRock feels she can do
the job. Miller and Peter-son
are the backup pitch-ers.
Transfers Kathy Stell-ema,
junior, and senior
Sher Kadlec will provide
valuable experience. The
team also has some depth
with freshmen Yvonne
Hughes, Shelley Sorensen
and Mel Visco vying for
starting roles.
was 10-18 in favor of the
Cheap Sunglasses. Mid-way
through the second
half the Whiteheads
caught up 28-27, and it
was a see-saw battle until
the end.
The score was tied at
34-34 with a few seconds
left to play. The White-heads
had a final shot but
The team will travel to
Tucson, Ariz., over spring
break where they will play
six games before return-ing
home to open their
Minnesota schedule April
7.
Although it is hard to
judge talent with only in-door
practices, Coach La-
Rock is optimistic. "We
have a good defense and
we're hoping for a good
couldn't sink it. In two-minute
overtime action,
Garth Renn put the White-heads
out in front 36-34
with a basket, but Tracy
Hames added two for the
Cheap Sunglasses before
time expired.
The contest ended in a
tie, 36-36. It was a great
finish for two teams
offensive attack. If our
pitching is consistent, we
should do OK," she said.
Softball enthusiasts are
encouraged to support the
women's team at their
home games played at Per-ry
Park. After returning
from Arizona the team will
play 19 games in 22 days.
Of these 19 games, only
three are away.
which obviously belong in
a class by themselves.
IM Co-ed volleyball
starts March 31. Rosters
are due by March 19.
IM open league basket-ball
tourneys are next
week.
Asay wins
two events,
leads team
by Wendy Norberg
Last Saturday the men's
track team traveled to St.
John's and competed in an
exciting meet with several
school records broken and
nine personal records set
by Bethel athletes. As a
team the Royals finished
third with 54 points, be-hind
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
(81) and St. John's (72)
and ahead of Hamline (29)
and Gustavus (10).
Phil Asay led the team,
taking first place and set-ting
school and personal
records in both the high
hurdles (7.6) and the long
jump (22'71/2"). Captain
Paul Otto also took two
first places, in the 300-
yarcidash (32.9) and in the
176-yard dash (18.3).
Tom Plocker finished
first in the 880-yard run in
1:58.7, a personal record
for him. Teammate Dave
Jorgenson also set a per-sonal
best in that race and
finished fourth. Don Haus-er
and Jay VanLoon later
set personal records in the
600-yard dash, taking sec-ond
and fifth respectively.
Coach Dave Anderson
was excited about the
improvements made by so
many of the men. The team
competes next at St. Olaf
Saturday, March 14.
I.M. basketball rivals, "The Whiteheads" and "The Cheap Sun- The men's indoor soccer club placed second in the state tournament recently. From top to bottom
glasses" ended the season in a tie game, 36-36. Whiteheads top, are Mark Johnson, Steve Figini, Bo Cedersjo, Joel Kraakurck, Kevin Higgs, Alan Johnson and
The Cheap Sunglasses bottom (photo by Sharon Holasek). Bobby Clark.
Softball team counts on strong defense